Word: bays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nurses was given the name of a homosexual VD carrier. (This type of case is difficult because of the promiscuity involved; whereas adult heterosexuals average four recent contacts and teen-agers six, homosexuals average up to twelve.) Posing as a poll taker, she talked her way into his Back Bay apartment. When she gave him the bad news, he gagged, ran to the bathroom and vomited. When he emerged, he fainted dead away. "Luckily," says the nurse, "he fainted right next to his well-stocked bar, so I just reached over and poured a bit of brandy into him." Restored...
...scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to build Hoover Dam in four years instead of six. The syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly $400 million worth of projects including pipelines and Mississippi River levees, dams and bridges...
...credibility gap is closed by violence. Last week a Viet Cong tossed a grenade into the living room of a village chief on Danang Bay. They killed a member of a government propaganda team distributing leaflets in Quang Nam province. They kidnaped two elders from a hamlet less than a mile from Hue. And they shot a villager in a hamlet in Thua Thien as a lesson to all the villagers not to vote in South Viet Nam's presidential elections. It was all in a week's work of governing, Viet Cong-style...
...company totted up record sales of $26 million last year, which is a long Philippine sea mile from its beginning in 1909, a decade after Commodore Dewey routed the Spanish colonialists in Manila Bay. Founded by a group of U.S. veterans of the Spanish-American War, Lusteveco got its modest start by bunkering coal-hungry...
...operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river's opaque water. As the Alpha Helix moved along looking for a landing site, Williams noticed that there were astonishingly few insects, though they are maddeningly plentiful along the Amazon's clear...