Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mulling over the subsea earthquake which shook and wave-smashed their islands a fortnight ago. At Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, Dr. Takahiro Hagiwara, one of Japan's leading seismologists, could not yet put his finger on the exact "epicenter," the place where the earth's crust had suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have been enough to stir...
...nation's ports, the strike of A.F.L. Masters, Mates and Pilots and C.I.O. Marine Engineers left most of the nation's ships just as dead in the water as they were five weeks ago when lower-crust seamen struck. Wages were not an issue; shipowners were willing to settle for boosts which would give some merchant marine captains well over $600 a month. The dispute was over the West Coast shipowners' refusal to give union members preference in hiring. While negotiators argued in Washington, ship captains in Manhattan argued among themselves, fought a battle of bottles, knives...
Fifty miles northeast of the Island of Hispaniola lies the Milwaukee Depth.* There the ocean's floor scoops down 30,246 ft. There, last week, the earth's crust ground silently against itself and distant seismographs marked the characteristic pattern of an earthquake on their sensitized film records...
...moot fact or two: first, when I gave him the bad news, Pucci had the superb crust to suggest, even as I spoke, that of course if I wanted his servizio speciale-at a higher rate-I would undoubtedly get better results...
...organizations have been as awkward and unattractive as the Republican Party in recent years. ... Its leadership has been vague. Its salesmanship has been negative. ... A dreary record . . . under the heavy crust of big-name capitalists and old-line politicians...