Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the diplomats were talking and Castro was sending out his saboteurs, the U.S. military buildup went on. Four LST troopships showed up at Fort Lauderdale, one at anchor in the channel and three nosed up to the beach with their bow doors open like yawning hippopotamuses. The 14,000 Air Force reservists that had been ordered to active duty were told that they might have to serve as long as one year. The Tactical Air Command had fighter-bombers and troop transports ready to go. The Strategic Air Command was on combat alert, with a fleet...
Anderson's orders were clear. All Cuba-bound ships entering the blockade area would be commanded to heave to. If one failed to halt, a shot would be fired across its bow. If it kept on, the Navy would shoot to sink. If it stopped, a boarding party would search it for offensive war materials. If it had none, it would be allowed to go on to Cuba. But if it carried proscribed cargo, the ship would be required to turn away to a non-Cuban port of its captain's own choosing. Similarly, Cuba-bound cargo aircraft...
...Marvelous!" a Russian general exclaims, and the auditorium rustles with applause. The professor-but the professor has vanished as mysteriously as he appeared, and it is the exquisite little old lady who makes her audience a dithery little bow...
...gentle, proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...
...drunken driver ran wild on Bow and Mt. Auburn Sts. at 12:45 a.m. this morning, side-swiping eight cars, flattening two parking meters, and attracting an excited crowd of at least 50 students. He was finally stopped in front of Elsie...