Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the biggest roll of fat was uncomfortably close to Congress' own waistline. The annual pork barrel-a dazzling and expensive array of highways, flood walls, harbor improvements, reclamation projects, new parks and buildings, and other enterprises designed principally to please a Congressman's or 'Senator's home-town constituents-would be the real test of the cooks' intentions...
...wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Myron Cowen, is a statuesque, energetic woman who won't tell her age. In her youth she studied music and dancing in France, later worked in the children's ward of Bellevue Hospital, served with anti-isolationist groups before Pearl Harbor. In Manila, Mrs. Cowen's relations with socially prominent Filipino women have not always been marked by intense cordiality. Last week she went to a luncheon of 200 Manila clubwomen to talk about the opening of a new charity playground. After congratulating her audience on their good works...
...eighth anniversary of Stalingrad, Pravda triumphantly reprinted an old pre-Pearl Harbor Truman quote: "If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible." What Pravda carefully omitted was the final phrase: ". . . although I don't want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances...
...BRIGHT winter sun shone down on the sparkling blue waters of Hong Kong's incomparable harbor. Commuters on the tidy little ferries that link Victoria Island with the mainland saw spread before them on the waterfront most of the great commercial names of the Orient-Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield & Swire, the East Asiatic Co. Dominating the closely packed warehouses and office buildings rose the massive square tower and the bronze lions of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp...
Immediately after Pearl Harbor the University announced that is was delaying all immediate plans for changes, saying that it would await Washington developments. President Conant, in an address to an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre on December 8, pledged full University co-operation in the war effort, and urged calmness and deliberation in advising all students to "examine the situation carefully and then decide how best they can serve their country...