Word: departing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cunard Line, which expects the alterations to help increase the Q.E.2's profits by 50%, seems prepared to weather the storm. But even the line's chairman, Victor Matthews, looked a little queasy after he toured the liner a few hours before it was due to depart Southampton for New York. "This is a disaster," he said, having peered through half-painted cabins with naked light bulbs hanging from their sockets and cables strewn across the floors. "The ship looks as though a bomb has hit it." The Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen...
...young people drive them back to Tokyo, they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed the stronger of the two, suffers a stroke her children come rushing to her sickbed. She dies, leaving her husband alone--the children, of course, depart immediately...
Jackson is not afraid to employ several academic disciplines to help in an interpretation of the songs: however, this sometimes leads him to depart from his highly readable style and utilize instead highly technical language comprehensible only to the scholar. But as Jackson points out, no amount of sociological or musicological discussion could obscure the vivid portraits painted by the songs themselves...
Uganda last week was a country increasingly gripped by hate-and fear of what might happen next. The nation's Asian community was broken apart as 50,000 of its members who hold British passports prepared to depart in a mass expulsion ordered by Uganda's dictator. President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin. He in turn was becoming increasingly frenetic, creating nine new provinces on one day, firing 29 of the country's top police officers on another. Most of the army remained under control, but drunken soldiers went on rampages in the provinces. About a dozen European...
...Addressing the central committee of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, Sadat announced to gasps and grins that he had decided to boot Soviet "advisers" out of Egypt. What was more, to the astonishment of possibly even Anwar Sadat, the Russians went. They commenced to depart aboard huge Soviet jet transports that began arriving at Cairo West airbase in numbers large enough to unsettle normal air traffic over the Mediterranean...