Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homeward from Salzburg last week after an anniversary festival trekked the Young Turks of 20th century music.They carried the sobering knowledge that many of them were not young any longer-indeed, not even "Turks" any more...
...Homeward bound to Los Angeles, the S.S. Bright Star was leaving the northern reach of the Philippines when the watch saw dense white clouds of smoke bursting out of the bosom of the Pacific. The Bright Star's skipper reported to Manila that an underwater volcano seemed to be erupting in the vicinity of Didicas Rocks, uninhabited islets some 70 miles off the coast of Luzon...
Ready to March. One critical sector had eased. Egypt's flare-up had preoccupied Churchill on his homeward voyage; messages in cipher raced back & forth between the Queen Mary and Downing Street. Eden, who had flown back from Washington, worked late and long in emergency conferences. So did the War Office. Britain's strategic reserves on Cyprus were readied for transfer to the Canal Zone; the Mediterranean Fleet was alerted. If King Farouk had not put down the revolt, the British were prepared to move on Egypt. After Farouk's action, Eden turned to conciliation, said Britain...
Winston Churchill was sailing homeward aboard the Queen Mary when Egypt's mobs swarmed through Cairo, demanding an immediate declaration of war on his nation. The U.S. State Department was leisurely considering, and disliking, Churchill's plea for a token show of U.S. force in Suez. Bloodshed in Ismailia, followed by vengeful bloodletting in Cairo, ended the false calm...
...more than three days, the North Atlantic seemed to give up to Captain Kurt Carlsen and his crippled Flying Enterprise. The British tug Turmoil plowed homeward through a placid sea, her five-inch steel towline dragging the wallowing Flying Enterprise. Aboard the listing Isbrandtsen freighter, Carlsen and Mate Kenneth Dancy of the Turmoil settled down for the trip into Falmouth. People all over the world read the headlines, and hoped...