Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regrettable incident," the Quai d'Orsai conceded. But why had the Ilyushin failed to respond to radio and visual urgings to get back on proper course? Reason for the intercept and the warning shots across the bow was that the Ilyushin had strayed inside what the French have marked off as their 80-mile "zone of responsibility" off Algeria. There the embattled French, trying to prevent infiltration of arms and men to the Algerian rebels, insist on the reserve right to control air and sea traffic. Furthermore, said the French, custom had been violated by the Russians' failure...
Neither Washington nor London had much appetite for putting a shot across the Santa Maria's bow and sending aboard a party of marines. Part of the difficulty was to decide just what crime had been committed. The 1958 Geneva treaty on Rules of the High Seas, specifically states that piracy involves the action of one ship against another, and therefore could not apply to the Santa Maria. Though Portugal is a NATO member and a centuries-old ally of Britain, Washington and London shrank from the worldwide clamor that would ensue if these particular rebels were handed over...
...intramural war of independence was evident on a recent cruise aboard Jack's sloop Victura, when Jack and the Radziwills sat with her in the stern, while she passed around oeufs en gelee and vin rosé from her hamper, and her Kennedy in-laws sprawled in the bow and lunched on peanut butter sandwiches and Cokes from a picnic basket...
...Wellington sat down to wait, what he presumed was Eugenie's little sister descended upon him. She stepped on his white buck shoes, untied his bow tie, mussed his hair, poked her fist in his eye, and jumped in his lap. "Get off me, kid, you shed," Wellington hissed...
...party, Annie pushed him toward the mob of people and shrieked, "Look, gang. It's a Hahvuhd man." Trying to pull it off, Wellington affected a graceful bow, but he received only blank stares from the assemblage. Wellington began to feel uneasy, and looked around the room for Eugenie. She was talking animatedly to two large male specimens who seemed to keep their eyes fixed on the region between her chin and waist...