Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week schools were shut down when students tried to demonstrate, and newspapers were forbidden to "carry news that might incite people." British troops patrolled the streets, exchanging occasional fire with snipers on the rooftops. For good measure, the carrier Eagle and the frigate Lowestoft steamed meaningfully into the Gulf of Aden...
...favorite: the big. lumbering and noisy mallard, which normally fills more than half of the Midwestern hunter's bag. Mallard breeding is at an alltime low; this year alone, hatchings fell 25% in the U.S., 35% in Canada. Now, as migration to winter grounds in the Gulf states begins in earnest, the experts estimate that a scant 13 million mallards will start down U.S. flyways-only 6.5 for each of the country's 2,000,000 duck hunters...
...that it will raise $25 million in Europe through a new subsidiary that will offer debentures convertible into Monsanto stock-a form of financing that is familiar in the U.S. but a rarity abroad. Through another new subsidiary, American Cyanamid recently marketed $20 million worth of debentures in Europe. Gulf Oil floated a $25 million bond issue, Socony Mobil a $28 million issue, and U.S. Rubber a $14 million issue-all in Europe...
Then, battering northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, Betsy hurtled full-blast into Louisiana and Mississippi. In the Delta lowlands, where Audrey in 1957 took 518 lives in one Louisiana parish, 250,000 refugees sought shelter in schools and churches. The Delta was even more seriously hurt than the Miami area. Overall, property damage was estimated at $500 million...
Bridging the Gulf. Despite Johnson's reputation for pressuring Congress, he has scrupulously observed his pledge to O'Brien, twists the Congressional arms of Larry's choosing and, mostly, at Larry's request. With an expanded corps of operatives-five men for floor work, twelve women researchers and secretaries-O'Brien has shown unprecedented agility in spanning the hazardous chasm between the Hill and the White House-maintaining what Bryce Harlow, President Eisenhower's legislative man, called "an ambulatory bridge across a constitutional gulf...