Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...
...Rocky, vacationing most of last week at his Seal Harbor, Me., estate, such statistics could only portend disaster. There is, of course, no doubt that he means to seek the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year. But he had meant to play things fairly cautiously. And now, in the face of all the worsening word, he was forced to step up his schedule. On his direct orders, Rocky's aides last week fanned out about the nation to assure G.O.P. leaders that "we are in the fight all the way," and to say that Rocky would test his popularity...
...Fournier's romantic pre-World War I The Wanderer, and John Knowles's A Separate Peace. No one, at any rate, excels Grass in one prerequisite for writing about adolescence-an eye for the entirely incongruous and often grimy details. On a half-submerged minesweeper in Danzig harbor, Mahlke and his classmates cheerfully chew dried seagull droppings and spit them contentedly into the sea. The next moment, before diving to explore the sunken hulk, Mahlke is reverently humming prayers of praise to the Virgin Mary...
...printed their own money, ran their trucks on alcohol distilled from coconut beer, even maintained a miniature but useful navy. Most important was probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur's return...
...place in the world we won't go if we see a chance to make money," says Lowell Dillingham. The Dillingham Corp., which Lowell formed in 1961 by putting together 21 of the family-run subsidiaries, is working on an airport in Malaya ($6,700,000), a harbors project in Indonesia ($5,000,000), an airport in Saudi Arabia ($3,400,000), and wharfing and harbor facilities in Singapore ($4,800,000). It is involved in a $28 million modernization of Australia's Mount Isa railroad and mines and a $3,500,000 reclamation project in the Philippines...