Word: levels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Flag at Cadmore End, Buckinghamshire, Publican Ron Hall announced: "I haven't stopped her coming in, but you could say that we're not the best of friends any more." Instead of easing off, British police intend to increase the number of checks, reaching the strictest level during the Christmas-holiday period...
...Japanese call it masu puro kyōiku (mass-production education), the style of academic life in the world's most university-populated city. Within Tokyo are no fewer than 102 universities with nearly 500,000 students, roughly half of the entire nation's college-level enrollment...
...course curriculum, ranging from remedial-reading programs to college-level courses in calculus and chemistry. There is also an extensive program of vocational training in subjects including machine design and "beverage management" (how to run a bar), which one housewife is taking because "you can't get a decent cocktail in Ithaca...
Some of the temporary effects were equally spectacular. Surging waves generated by the quake reached as high as 220 ft. above sea level near Valdez. Some 2,800 miles from the epicenter, at Hilo, Hawaii, the seismic sea wave caused the ocean to rise 121 ft. And in Antarctica, 8,445 miles away, the tsunami was recorded 221 hours after Alaska had shaken, having crossed the vast expanse of water at 430 m.p.h...
...from the earthquake also caused seiches (water oscillations) in rivers, lakes and protected harbors along the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. At New Orleans, a drawbridge tender felt the span shake beneath his feet, and a sudden rise of from 1½ to 5 ft. in the level of the Mississippi caused docked vessels to break loose from their moorings. In Atlantic City, N.J., (more than 4,000 miles from the quake), the thorough scientists report, water sloshed over the top of a hotel swimming pool...