Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were slopped out of outdoor ponds in Seattle. Sulphuric acid spilled over the edge of a smelter vat in Tacoma, made workmen run like rabbits,, The quake lasted for 45 minutes, but was only noticeable for two. Nobody was killed. Seismologists explained that the quake had come from the ocean floor, 200 miles west. But almanac readers knew better. That was the day a B-29 dropped a practice explosive bomb at Bikini Atoll. The earth had twitched slightly, like a horse plagued...
...yards. "It was the best shot and the dirtiest trick I ever done." Hidden court stenographers were listening in the next room for just such a confession. The marshal swore out a warrant for Tom's arrest. The sheriff picked him up in the lobby of the Inter-Ocean Hotel the next...
Permanent Possession. In the Pacific, complexities were almost as numerous as the flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
Apparently the owners were confident that they could break the strike. The union, counting on its own strength and anticipated sympathy strikes from longshoremen and ocean seamen, was equally sure of itself. But what worried plain citizens was that every available ship was needed to haul next winter's coal from the U.S. Each wasted day meant cold homes for next winter...
...that's it, that's the idea, that's what all the shouting's about . . . that's Christmas come, that's the Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven, that's the song and the dance, the old river laughing, the ocean all happy, the wind full of kisses, the sky open arms, the tree jumping for joy, the rock all humming, the night gone whispering, the day come strolling...