Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of world organization can now include those who recognize the good in the UN as the only existing international body but at the same times realize its inherent imperfections. They can also encompass those Americans who favor world government but not at the expense of creating an unbridgeable gulf between Russian and this country...
...estimated potential: up to 26 billion bbls.), Aramco last week awarded contracts for the biggest and costliest pipeline in oil history. Straddling the Middle East for a distance of some 1,000 miles, the 30-inch pipe will shortcut the long haul by tanker from fields on the Persian Gulf to ports in the Mediterranean. It will cost some $100,000,000, will deliver up to 370,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, some 60,000 more than Big Inch (TIME...
...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
Rumors flew fast and wild. Was it a subterranean eruption fouling the Gulf with sulphurous poisons? Darling examined samples of the water under a low-powered microscope. He reported that the water seemed full of "waltzing mice": thousands of fast-moving organisms which "seem to accomplish their swimming by a whirling motion." He made sketches and sent them to Washington...
...Nora. Quietly written, with even less "plot" and hardly more fictional fireworks than might be found in an Elizabeth Bowen story, it is perceptive, skillful, and now & then witty. Emerson once shrewdly observed: "Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf." This is an account of the Macloud gulf, told mostly in terms of young Nora's reactions and those of her father, who at points finds himself quite as baffled...