Word: biscay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Severo Ochoa, 54, born in the Bay of Biscay town of Luarca, taught physiology at the University of Madrid until 1936. Then, with his family as sharply disrupted as his country by Franco's rebellion, Ochoa left to do research in Germany and England, came to the U.S. in 1940. After a year at St. Louis' Washington University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make...
...strike was made in Les Landes (The Wastelands), a barren, 110-mile-long strip of sand dunes and pines along the Bay of Biscay inhabited up to now chiefly by woodcutters and sheepherders. Geologists had long suspected that there was oil beneath the pines and sand dunes. But the French had not been able to find...
...until the seventh day of her New York-bound voyage, nothing suggested that she faced anything more than a routine crossing of the wintry Atlantic. Then, west and north of the Bay of Biscay, the ship was enveloped by an awesome storm. A black sky pressed down. The horizon vanished in flying spindrift. As solid seas began thundering over the vessel's bow, lier radio picked up a warning: worse was to come-the fiercest December gales in 22 years were howling along the European coast...
Customs officers were allowed on the mother ship, where the flotilla master explained: "The Russian fishing industry urgently needs more trawlers in the Black Sea." He was waiting for other trawlers to catch up and refuel, then all would proceed on through the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The naval maneuvers were to be held in the Bay of Biscay...