Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dollar virtually stabilized." Economic growth was fostered by a "continuing effort to reduce artificial restraints on competition" and by "major improvements" in the nation's transportation system. "After long years of debate, the dream of a great St. Lawrence Seaway, opening the heartland of America to ocean commerce, has been fulfilled." The federal-state highway system "has been pushed rapidly forward," and 25% of the planned network is now open to traffic. "Our nation benefits also from a remarkable improvement in general industrial peace through strengthened processes of free collective bargaining. Time lost since '1952 because of strikes...
Adlai Stevenson talks enthusiastically about his new job as Ambassador to the U.N., said Secretary of State-designate Dean Rusk dryly last week, but "getting him going there is like trying to berth an ocean liner without tugs at night...
...main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch, can't tell gimbals from a department store, and couldn't sail a pea pod in a porringer...
...worst victims are subject to terrifying sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...South and Central American Indians migrated from Asia. The majority thinks that they brought with them only the rock-bottom culture of nomadic hunters and thereafter built their own glittering cultures independently, without help from across the Pacific. The contrary view is that Asian cultures kept trickling over the ocean, materially helping the Indians develop their advanced civilizations...