Word: helm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a promise of $100 million in arms, the Syrian army intelligence service broadcast a fantastic "communique" from Damascus. "O people!" it said, "a mean imperialist plot" has just been discovered. At least three members of the U.S. embassy staff in Syria were said to be involved. "At the helm of the conspiracy," said the Damascus radio, was Second Secretary Howard Stone, "a most skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus between two young Syrian officers and two Syrian "reactionaries...
...other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted the drunkenly weaving junk, boarded her and took her into custody...
Joel Wechsler has placed himself at the helm of Thursday night's JAZZ STEAMBOAT where he delights in satisfying traditionalists with a half-hour of pure Dixie and New Orleans jazz. And finally, every Friday Greg Dickerson is found behind the double glass windows; the name of the show which brings you the exciting sounds of the big bands is JAZZ BANDSTAND...
...land. In Ushant (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952), an indefinable sort of stream-of-consciousness auto biography, Aiken's American steered his way over the Atlantic towards a distant light, amid the crying of seagulls and the clanging of bells-and the same hand is at the helm of Mr. Arcularis. The result is poignant, eerie, fateful, with highly dramatic moments. No other living poet, using heartbeats and a coffin as his props, could convey a grimmer impression of man's syncopated march into the bosom of death...
...constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...