Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, Hope Root loved the sea. A vigorous, barrel-chested (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) Miami lawyer, Root spent his spare time in or on the water, fishing, boating and swimming. Three years ago he discovered the new sport of skin diving with an Aqua-Lung. He discovered the thrill of plunging into the dark depths without the clumsy encumbrance of a diving suit, using only a mouthpiece breathing apparatus to equalize the tremendous pressures of the ocean's silent world. Unlike Captain Cousteau, who brought the silent world on to the printed page in a 1953 bestseller...
...partial palliative, but it is like giving a man with a broken arm a temporary anesthetic. No matter how much the public learns about Harvard's accomplishments, it will still point to those who use the Fifth Amendment as rotten apples that can ruin the whose University barrel...
...Most Important Act. Day after day, the convention denounced the Eisenhower Administration. Reuther began the attack in his keynote speech: "Big business has moved in. They are taking over the Government lock, stock and barrel . . . they have turned the New Deal into the Big Steal." Assailing Republican leaders as "stupid, selfish men," Reuther said: "We are keeping score for 1954, and we are going to even the score at that time...
When the ships were a few hours at sea, Balboa emerged from his barrel and presented himself to the commander of the expedition. How he rose from his cramped beginnings to the glory of a peak in Darién,* where he discovered and claimed for God and Castile the Pacific Ocean and all the lands adjoining, is a fascinating story; it is told in fine detail in a solidly researched new book, Balboa of Darién, by Kathleen Romoli...
...capital of the Spanish empire in the New World. They were headed for Urabá, on the South American mainland, with 150 settlers eager for land and gold. On one ship was a stowaway: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, an adventurer who came aboard in a provisions barrel to escape his creditors...