Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crane's collection began last February, when he received one of the cards announcing that his father, who lives in Gulf port, Miss., had given him a subscription to TIME. The doctor wrote, asking if he could have some more cards. Later he sent a letter of explanation and a picture of his reasons (see above...
...sparkling, star-filled stream that incites cowboys and senoritas to romance. Normally, the river is a chocolate-colored ditch, treacherous with potholes where many an unwary wetback has drowned. It swirls between banks of cactus and mesquite down 1,800 miles of rich, irrigated farmland to the Gulf of Mexico. Last week most of the lower Rio Grande, from Laredo (pop. 51,910) to its mouth at the southernmost tip of Texas, was a dry arroyo; at Laredo, the river ran dry for the first time since the International Water Commission began keeping records 52 years ago. Goats pattered across...
Alice of 1953 was wandering last week in the Gulf of Mexico. She was feeble, premature and not at all dangerous...
...Churchill doublecrosses us, let Russia have the British Isles. Then we can justifiably atom-bomb the Gulf of Mexico until the Gulf Stream flows into Canadian waters, and England will be frozen stiff next winter...
...takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane to La Paz for which the package was meant is high over the Gulf of California, safe...