Word: muscat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 150 years, Britain has been on stout-fellow terms with the Sultans of Muscat and Oman, a stretch of mountain and desert that the British Navy admired for its excellent harbors conveniently located near the entrance to the Persian Gulf. The great Nelson spent two months there as a midshipman in 1775; an early 19th century Sultan presented the Admiralty with a ship of the line in gratitude for British protection...
...Britons could point to Muscat and Oman on a map. It was no wonder, then, that, totting up its scores of 200 national anthems that Navy ships play on official courtesy calls to foreign ports, the Admiralty this year discovered that it lacked an up-to-date version of Muscat's. The only version available was a B-flat clarinet score. The Admiralty asked the Foreign Office to forward the score to its man in Muscat for verification...
...remote sultanate of Muscat and Oman, Dhofar Cities Service Petroleum Corp. was punching dry holes all over the sere, cheerless wastes, but was still hopeful of hitting a gusher...