Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked out in Yugoslavia, a proper compromise would require Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories it now occupies, while the Arab nations would declare an end to belligerency with Israel, thus in effect recognizing Israel's right to exist as a nation. Though the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba would revert to Egyptian control, Israeli ships would be guaranteed free passage...
...their morale, Skipper Sturrock herded up all his ambulatory Aussies and dragged them off to Montreal to see Expo. The news from home at least was good. All of Australia is pulling for an upset and praying for one-including a tribe of aborigines on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, who have promised to sing a "wind corroboree" for good luck every day that Dame Pattie races...
...city officials' confidence has a firm financial basis. Five oil companies -Shell, Esso, Gulf, British Petroleum and Chevron-have zealously backed their every scheme. In response to the channel deepening, four have ordered no fewer than 82 tankers of the 175,000 to 225,000-ton class. And on land, they have invested more than $1 billion in facilities, about a third of it in chemical works and the balance...
...largest in the world. At about the same time, Esso said that it would double its refining capacity from 8,000,000 tons to 16 million tons, and British Petroleum opened a $69 million refinery and designated Europoort its major stock and storage point in Europe. Finally, last week Gulf announced that it would build a $70 million chemical plant to manufacture polyethylene products...
Twice in the same day, the clang of fire bells sounded over the Gulf of Tonkin, and the cry of "Fire! Fire! Fire!" issued from the loudspeaker of the U.S.S. Forrestal, the Navy's third largest aircraft carrier (after the Enterprise and America). Each time the blaze was doused in minutes, but an uneasy calm settled over the 76,000-ton ship. Only the day before, the Forrestal had arrived off the North Vietnamese coast for her first combat duty, and her 4,500-man crew grimly recalled that a fire had killed 44 men aboard the carrier Oriskany...