Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This done they set sail for Boston, via the Gulf Stream. But off Florida, a bitter north caster slammed into the Stream, making progress just about impossible. Davis headed westward to the Inland Waterway. The average depth of the waterway is eight feet; the Miru's draft is eight feet. These two factors caused 13 groundings on the way, one of which left the Miru high and dry until a new tide...
...become less effective than it was in the igth century, because the rise in the standard of education will not have kept pace either with the dilution of the electorate or with the increasing complicatedness and technicality of public business." In less experienced states, Toynbee suggests, an even greater gulf will grow "between democratic form and bureaucratic fact...
...Paseo de la Reforma, the pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex' new Tenixtepec field, the country's biggest strike since Mexico took over its oil industry...
TELEVISION Gulf Playhouse...
Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...