Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After months of tortuous indecision, a French government was at action stations last week. The order: buoy up the nation's economy. With each succeeding day (including Sunday), the government sinks $6,000,000 deeper into the red. Millifranc notes are pouring from the government printing presses to float government payrolls, but soon the inflation must be plugged or the economy will be in danger of foundering...
...Harvard Dramatic Club left the well-trodden field of Othello with creditable success, marred only by the lead's unfortunate ineptness. Richard Heffron, in the title role, was more of a weight than a buoy to the show. Playing his early scenes in a sullen monotone, he gave no hint of a character that could erupt into uxoricide. Then, in his big scenes, he abandoned himself to steady roaring, without climaxes or the delicate shading that devides the complete amateur from the budding professional. As a result, Othello was without depth, a man of stock motions, trite passions...
...improvise, and urgent S O S's were radioed to the U.S. carriers Midway and Leyte, bucking the heavy winds some 150 miles away. Through a second tense night and most of a second day, rescuers managed to get a few of the crew ashore by breeches buoy. A dozen others plunged into the sea. to be fished out by a crazily weaving Italian rescue launch. By midafternoon, with 15 bluejackets still aboard, the stern half of the Grommet Reefer was lurching dangerously...
...eldest member of the Cheever family is tied to la buoy in Buzzard's Bay. She is a fifteen foot Hereshoff sailboat which first tasted sak water in 1898. confessing to a great sentimental attachment for the skiff, Cheever doubts that he'll ever give it up. "I guess I'm sort of like an auto enthusiast with an antique...
...Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join the professor in the corn wagon...