Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack from the hills took the British by surprise. ("There is supposed to be a gentlemen's agreement in the Persian Gulf area," grumbled one officer, "that nobody fights in the summer-it's too bloody hot.") With the temperature last week at 130°, the Sultan's commander in chief, Pat Waterfield, was on home leave in England. So was Britain's top political resident in the Persian Gulf, Sir Bernard Burrows. That left command of the Sultan's army to Major Pat Gray, one of the soldierly Britons who were tossed...
...Future. By Nasser's standards, this too was a restrained speech. He made no demands that the U.N. Emergency Force withdraw from Egypt's borders. He made no mention of Israel's ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship...
Behind the great arc that stretches from Shantung province on the Yellow Sea to the southern coast of Kwangtung province on the Gulf of Tonkin, the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies-flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong at an officially counted rate of 100 a day; how many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past...
...Third Grade: geography and history of Houston and the Gulf Coast area...
...working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants, can make an important contribution. Two months ago Freeman completed a TV-sized electronic tide-telling machine, claims that it predicted a 10.7-ft. tide at Cameron, La. well in advance of Hurricane Audrey. Actual height of the tide...