Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to the Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were staging their first joint maneuvers to show how fast they could come to the aid of their ally. A task force of U.S., British, Australian and New Zealand warships knifed northward through the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Siam. Crisp and impressive, 650 Philippine infantrymen rolled ashore from a U.S. seaplane tender in the harbor. U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars, lugging men and arms from Japan, came up like thunder across the South China...
Most of the intensity of the film, which is based closely on the 1951 Broadway play, is provided by a transplanted Sicilian woman, Serafina Delle Rose. After the death of her smuggler husband, she locks herself up in her Gulf Coast shack and spends three years worshipping his memory and his ashes, which she keeps in an urn in the living room. But three years is a long wait for a woman of Sicilian temperament, and the end of her seclusion is in sight when she finds out that her lamented spouse had been keeping other company. So when...
...Declaration of Washington the President and the Prime Minister ringingly defined the moral gulf between the free and Communist worlds...
...edge of the Gulf Stream, 2½ miles off Hollywood Beach, Fla., Indianapolis Housewife Barbara Jacobs, 33, strapped on an Aqua-Lung, swam down to a new skindiving record for women...
Dean Horton also proposed the establishment of a series of Institutes, at which laymen and theologians will discuss the message of religion for specific areas of life in the world. Such programs would establish "a desperately needed contact," he said, for at present "a gulf exists between the two worlds, academic and non-academic, nowhere more noticeable nor more painful than in the Church...