Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lisbon, Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, took public notice of greatly increased movements of Soviet cruisers and destroyers through the Dardanelles into the eastern Mediterranean. The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island...
...Salif, where, under the telescopes of watchers on the British Kamaran Islands in the Red Sea, Egyptian officers directed the unloading of T-34 tanks, piston-engine trainer planes, antiaircraft guns, military vehicles and small arms. The British, already in trouble fighting the Imam of Oman at the eastern end of the Arabian peninsula, now face the possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted on their use for outside mischiefmaking: as the leading head-chopper among Arab potentates, the Imam has little domestic opposition...
From London had come an Order in Council from Queen Elizabeth granting immediate home rule for Eastern and Western Nigeria. The cabled order caught Nigeria's regional premiers by complete surprise. Western Premier Chief Obafemi Awolowo was holidaying in Britain. Eastern Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe better known as "Zik" to his enthusiastic followers, was something less than exuberant. ''Falls so far short of the yearnings," complained his newspaper, "that it does not deserve to be noised abroad. The drums ought to be silent. The cymbals should be hidden away...
...yacht and country clubs and the looming shingled mansions by the sea, eastern high society dances the summer nights away to the honey-tongued music of a few favored bands. The men on the bandstands at Newport, Southampton and Bar Harbor are the.same ones who whip out the frothy fox trots at the coming-out balls in the fall, at the canopied weddings in June; two generations of debutantes have been presented, courted and married under the batons of such bandleaders as Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman. Perhaps the busiest of the musical blue bloods is a springy, raw-nerved...
...wealthy strip of Eastern Seaboard where Lanin usually roams, the demand for his services is fiercely competitive. He has solid bookings as far ahead as 1963, verbal engagements up to 1968. The mammas book him for their infant daughters' debuts in the same way that the papas book their infant sons for Yale; Lanin rechecks each booking a year or two before the scheduled date just in case "they haven't been clipping their coupons...