Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dark Skies. It was a light schedule, and shortly before noon he was ready to relax. He donned a white pith helmet, strolled to the beach past blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...
Meanwhile, back in Bermuda, a new era had swept over the dreamy gulf-stream island. All time was dated A.D. (after dollars) and B.C. (before cash). Large altars were erected in honor of the Gold Standard. Most of these sacred shrines assumed the shapes of hotels, country clubs, exclusive beach resorts, and restaurants...
...been suckled with the sound of oil rigs in his ears; his father, an itinerant oilfield workman named William McCarthy, came to Spindletop as a driller, and Glenn was born there in 1907. One of his earliest memories concerns the great Gulf Coast hurricane of 1915. As the storm approached, the elder McCarthy galloped to the field in a two-wheeled gig; Glenn went with him and crouched in the roaring darkness as derrick after derrick crashed into wreckage...
...barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...
Died. Sir Ahmed Ibn Al Jabir Al Subah, 64, oil-rich ruler of the Arab sheikdom of Kuwait, near the head of the Persian Gulf; of a heart attack; in his capital, Al Kuwait...