Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From June on, a series of dry air masses hovered far above the U.S., swirling around a high-pressure center. Winds moving around this center kept moist air over the Gulf of Mexico from spreading, and steered Pacific storms off to the north. As summer wore on, the dry masses sank steadily, becoming compressed and growing warmer.,as they came down. The result: hot, dry weather over most of the country, disastrous drought in sections of 13 states. Last fortnight, the drought breeding weather high was cracked and pushed aside...
Horse Cave offered the poison to chemical companies, free. There were no takers. Health officers refused to let the poison be poured into an abandoned well or buried in "some no-count piece of land." Someone suggested towing the stuff down the Mississippi and dumping it in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said no, it would kill too many fish...
...Foreigners may not build churches for their own use. They may not be married in Arabia. Church services are held surreptitiously in recreation halls. Clergymen come in from Persian Gulf ports disguised as teachers...
...smashing at Vienna's gates and made Budapest a suburb of Constantinople. Gone was the conquering fervor that created a tri-continental empire the size of the U.S., encompassing what are now 20 modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing up the best of the remainder. The greatest empire between Augustus and Victoria had shrunk to a small, lifeless inland state in the barren interiors of Asia Minor...
...more than a year, Britain has carried on a sort of comic-opera blockade around the oasis of Buraimi. a cluster of 8,000 Arabs in mud-walled villages not far from the Persian Gulf. Last week the blockade abruptly lost its comic flavor. There was shooting in the desert and blood on the sand...