Word: gulf
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Iran's oil need not travel through Nasser's Suez Canal. It can be unloaded at Israel's Red Sea port of Elath, on the Gulf of Aqaba. This week a new, 16-in. pipeline across the Negev desert will connect Elath with Israel's big refinery at Haifa. Designed to carry 1,700,000 tons of oil a year, it can in time be stepped up to a 5,800,000-ton capacity. Since Israel itself uses only 1,500,000 tons of oil a year, the Israel pipeline offers the possibility of sending Middle...
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Suddenly the blue-green Gulf Stream erupted with convulsive fury. Like a giant marlin in a cascade of brine, a grey, bottle-shaped monster leaped into the afternoon. For an instant it hung against the sky-silent, ominous, streaming foam. Then it came alive with unearthly racket. Its tail belched flame, and it climbed into its new element with incredible ease. Arcing high into the thin, cold reaches of space, the first ballistic missile ever to be fired from a submerged submarine swung surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed...
...Gulf...
Every man aboard reflects Mitchell's devotion to detail that leads him to read ancient books about ocean currents, worry about the brand of cookies stored in the galley, and take water-temperature readings to trace the warm Gulf Stream with a thermometer graded in 100ths of a degree. No one on Finisterre would think of lounging about during off-hours; each man dons eyeshade and earplugs and hits the sack for some serious sleep. In action, the crew spots trouble so swiftly that Mitchell seldom gives an order. As easily as lowering or raising a window shade...