Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Named for its similarity to offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...
...dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce...
...flat bat with holes in it. A dozen sharp blows of the palmatória on the open palm leave welts and blisters that last for weeks. Persistent troublemakers disappear quietly to the labor camps of São Tomé, Portugal's little island prison in the Gulf of Guinea...
...gallons a day of unpotable water into good water for the town of Oxnard. Calif, at a cost of 20? per thousand gallons-half the amount that most U.S. cities pay for their water. About 50 more company plants are in operation or projected from Alaska to the Persian Gulf...
...stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...