Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western Algeria, near the Moroccan border, the rebels launched coordinated attacks on the rich, winegrowing plains between the mountains and the coasts. In one night, rebel bands attacked 46 big French farms, burned buildings to the ground, slaughtered 17 Europeans and 23 Moslems. In the east, rebels attacked 40 villages along the mountainous coast, hurling hand grenades and gasoline bombs. At week's end, rebel suicide squads broke into Constantine (pop. 118,000) at noon, fought a running gun battle with French troops through the streets, and bombed a Jewish cafe in the city's center...
...also knew that suspicious women would watch to see whether I picked a home with a Deepfreeze, mangle, maid and easy appliances, so I didn't." He chose the home of Mrs. Norman Dion, 31, wife of a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard, and mother of Susan, 4, Sally, 3, Melina, 20 months, and Ned, 6 months...
Trackside dockers were not at all surprised to see the handsome sorrel-topped fellow open a big lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind...
...record (3:58), but he has also accomplished the improbable feat of being beaten twice while breaking the four-minute barrier (by Dr. Roger Bannister two years ago in Vancouver, B.C.. by Aussie Jim Bailey a fortnight ago in Los Angeles). Last week, at the West Coast Relays in Fresno, Calif., John Landy shaded four minutes for the sixth time in his career-and once more he was disappointed...
...that the trend is away from experiment for its own sake. One of the best of the new comers. Edmond Casarella, used cardboard in relief to make Rock Cross, but the success of the finished work depends on the careful preliminary sketches he made of rocks along the Maine coast. In Winter, Gabor Peterdi of Yale's Design Center combined both etching and engraving techniques. The result, a moody study of brush locked in wintry immobility, is an imaginative rendering of nature straightforwardly observed...