Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From then on Holloway's Navy name was established-but in training and personnel rather than operational command. From 1947 to 1950 he was a successful superintendent of the Naval Academy, hiking academic standards, instituting a new leadership course for which he wrote half the textbook. The other half, on psychology, was written by a Johns Hopkins group. And after 30 uneventful months as commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Battleship-Cruiser Force, Holloway turned out yet another standout performance, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel from 1953-58, as the Navy came out of Korea...
...weeks (normal precipitation: 2.31 in.). Audubon, Iowa was drenched by over 12 in. in eleven hours; 19 drowned in resulting flash floods in the Nishnabotna River valley. Indiana's floods are the worst in 45 years, and the state's wheat crop this harvest may be only half the 38 million bu. estimated earlier. In North Dakota's Red River Valley, corn that stood 30 in. tall a year ago is 19 in. because of rain, chill and lack of sunshine...
...never mind talking," said a Macmillan aide, and Macmillan meant to speak as plainly to Khrushchev as Sir Anthony Eden had before about British determination to defend its interests in such Persian Gulf oil states as Kuwait (the source of half of Britain's oil). Britain's concern is immediate: the Sheik of Kuwait, whose oil royalties are some $300 million a year, conferred twice in Damascus last week with Nasser. It also became apparent that Macmillan was getting ready to put Nasser himself on trial. The Middle East war that Khrushchev said had "already begun...
...vast British tropical colony of Nigeria, the back-country people of the Eastern Region have long been a troublesome lot to officialdom. Mostly half-naked farmers, they take unusual delight in staging bloody campaigns against vaccinations, and in setting schools on fire. Each time the police must come in to restore order. But of all the assignments that the police have undertaken, none has produced such eerie results as the search of the house of Chief Nwiboko Obodo...
Although she has been singing professionally half her life, Ernestine has caused so little public stir that she only recently caught the ear of the recordmakers (a first Anderson album, misleadingly titled Hot Cargo, was issued this summer by Mercury). Last week Ernestine was singing once a week for $25 at Los Angeles' Little Avant Garde Club. She gave the patrons mostly standards-But Not for Me, Gone with the Wind, Take the A Train-that dramatically displayed her talents. She can swing upbeat ballads in a light-textured voice or noodle a bit of the blues in tones...