Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishing industry ir New England has slumped so badly that boats are sailing south to try for shrimp. Nine boats have already left New Bedford, Mass, for the Gulf, and ten others are scheduled to leave soon. Fishermen say skidding prices, rising costs and Canadian competition are ruining their business...
...fast as troublemakers showed, the cops clubbed them, shoved them into cars, drove them off to jail. The police were indiscriminate but effective; the mob never got out of the bazaar. Casualties: two to five rioters dead, another 218 deported to bleak, boiling-hot Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. General Dadsetan sat back at headquarters and smiled: "There's not much...
Black Pobedas. Stevens traveled about Russia as much as Soviet restrictions would allow: from Leningrad on the Finnish Gulf to Tiflis in the Caucasus and Novosibirsk in central Siberia. Everywhere he found warmth and hospitality. In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...
Worthwhile Friends. Balboa, who knew the mainland from an earlier expedition, persuaded his new commander that a better site than Urabá for a settlement would be Darién, just across the gulf in what is now Colombia. There the expeditionaries founded a town, Santa Maria del Antigua, and set up the first European colony on the American mainland...
...troughs of low pressure, plus the movement of the high-pressure center out over the Gulf of Mexico, did it. The troughs converged on the U.S. from the Atlantic and the Pacific. The eastern trough let in warm, moist Atlantic air; its western partner opened a path for moisture-laden air masses from the Gulf. Meeting colder air from the Pacific and Canada, the warm, moist air masses condensed and fell to earth as rain...