Word: bays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their Irish forbidden list, along with ads or news stories on football pools, sex crimes, abortion and contraception. Venereal disease has not been mentioned in the Irish press in modern memory, and artificial insemination of barnyard animals is primly reduced to initials-A.I.-from Ballyshannon to Bantry Bay...
...beauty of its vivid-hued cliffs and luminous Blue Grotto, Italy's fabled Bay of Naples island of Capri owes its reputation less to its scenery than to two of its former inhabitants. One was the Emperor Tiberius, who retired some 1,900 years ago to a mountaintop villa from which, records Suetonius, "condemned persons, after long and exquisite tortures, used to be hurled, on his orders and in his presence, into the sea." The other was British Author Norman Douglas, whose bestselling South Wind (1917) painted a thinly disguised picture of Capri as a haunt of elegant wickedness...
...great General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold once observed, "its strategic center will be the North Pole." Last week, as the brief northern summer edged into Canada's high Arctic, Canada and the U.S. were busy pushing their strategic frontiers closer to the North Pole. At Churchill and Frobisher Bay, three hours' jet flight from the Pole, growling bulldozers lengthened runways to accommodate the Strategic Air Command's jet tankers. At remote island outposts, stevedoring crews labored through the pale summer nights to put ashore the year's supply of food, fuel and spare parts...
...ramshackle Chicago laboratory, an earnest, imaginative young scientist named Emil Grubbe gazed at the greenish glow coming from a Crookes vacuum tube he had made. He put his left hand on the tube. It was warm. Grubbe (pronounced Grew-bay) was satisfied that the tube (useful only in scientific experiments) was working right. By summer's end, a severe skin irritation appeared on Grubbe's left hand. Dermatologists had no idea what it was. Then Grubbe heard that, from similar tubes, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen had generated a new and mysterious form of radiation-X rays. "I knew then...
OYSTER BLIGHT is creating unsavory stew for oystermen in Delaware Bay and along East Coast. Bills pending in Congress would allow Government loans to oystermen at 3% interest until Interior Department can stem disease that will further shorten supply and increase prices...