Word: inlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bond stood with his foot poised against the outboard escape door, which would open when pressure inside and out was equalized. After 25 seconds, he felt it give, and yelled: "On the bottom!" Tuckfield closed the air inlet. They were now up to their necks in water, and breathing air at a pressure of about ten atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau...
...group of 140 Eskimos in bright-colored shirts, the women with children slung on their backs, sat attentively in a little wooden schoolhouse at Rankin Inlet on the icebound coast of Hudson Bay. Before them. Anglican Bishop Donald Marsh solemnly intoned: "It apper-taineth to the office of a deacon, in the church where he shall be appointed to serve, to assist the priest in divine service ..." Armand Tagoona, 35, was being ordained the first Anglican deacon in the eastern Arctic...
...says Marsh, partly because of the difficulty of attending Mass, partly because the Eskimo is an individualist. "He just won't let anyone tell him what to do. He doesn't readily subject himself to the discipline required of a Catholic." The Roman Catholic mission at Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, has not made a convert in 30 years, and the Eskimos of northern Quebec, which is well saturated with Catholic missionaries, are 98% Anglican...
Sundae Punch. In Ocean Ridge, Fla., told to get a permit or stop vending on the Boynton Inlet docks, Ice Cream Peddler C. R. Wilson threw a left jab, broke the police chief's nose in four places...
...this sunlit night last week, Crofter Willie Fraser and his son were hoeing turnips in the garden of their low stone cottage near the inlet. They looked up to see a man come racing over the headland. He stumbled once or twice, then reached them, gasping out words in Russian and German, pointing in terror behind him, repeatedly making the gesture of slitting his throat. Recognizing a fugitive, Fraser did the human thing: he hid the man, one Erich Teayn, 32, in his cottage...