Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need a blanket tonight." In recent years, the Casino had lost money, and Prince Rainier, who gets 10% of the take in profitable years, was looking for some $1,000,000 in new capital. Three of the Casino's directors were out lining up money, when Onassis hove into sight...
...kept his feelings to himself as he flew toward Guam. At Guam, he, Wilson, Brownell and the correspondents left the planes and boarded the Navy's U.S.S. Helena, a heavy cruiser, for the trip back to Pearl Harbor. The Helena's wireless crackled, and when the cruiser hove to off Wake Island, a helicopter brought aboard Ike's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, General Lucius Clay, Budget Man Joe Dodge, Emmet Hughes, campaign speechwriter who is to be on Eisenhower's White House staff...
Died. Gilbert Frankau, 68, onetime soldier, tobacco merchant turned novelist (Christopher Strong, Farewell Romance, The Dangerous Years) and war poet (The Guns); after long illness; in Hove, England...
...ford) is a deep, narrow strait separating Europe and Asia, named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus...
...little more than half the crew lived to see the spring. Under Waxell's command they broke up the old St. Peter, which had crashed ashore soon after they landed, and built themselves a hooker. By August all was ready, the survivors set sail, and two weeks later hove into Petropavlovsk with "joy and heartfelt delight." North America must have seemed a poor bargain to the Russians. Eventually, they were to sell out their share of it-Alaska's 586,00 square miles-for about 2? an acre...