Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sjevik was steaming slowly 1½ nautical miles outside the Soviet fishing boundary north of the Russian naval base at Murmansk, the cable between the ship and the net it was dragging along the ocean floor 450 ft. below suddenly started rushing off its reel. "At first," reported Sjevik Skipper Ivar Hamnen when he returned to Norway last week, "we thought our net had been snared by the gear of another fishing vessel. But no other ship was trawling in the vicinity. Our ship began moving backward, pulled by an invisible force that was stronger than our engine. Then...
...watches her diet strictly-no junk food) was so much in her element that the audience had no more fear of her falling than of a fish drowning. ABC's Jim McKay, offering television's best-turned phrase of the week, described her as "swimming in an ocean of air." Reassured by Nadia's self-confidence, the sellout crowds (scalpers got $200 for $16 tickets) gasped not in apprehension but with delight and awe. Indeed, Nadia seemed as at home on the balance beam as Br'er Rabbit was in the brier patch-hopping about...
...Dylan or Randy Newman. Those who come to hear Zevon perform are not purists. They are beguiled by his lyrics, which typically are about Chicano hustlers, Sunset Strip women and hotel-bar bums. A quatrain from his ballad Desperados Under the Eaves: "And if California slides into the ocean/ Like the mystics and statistics say it will/ I predict this motel will be standing/ Until I pay my bill...
...claimed a large slice of their country-along'with a big swatch of southern Sudan-on the basis of some 19th century colonial maps that showed them to be Ugandan territory. Fearing that Amin was concocting an excuse that could be a first step toward obtaining an Indian Ocean outlet for his landlocked state, Kenyans reacted with officially encouraged hysteria. Rallies throughout the country vilified Amin; one group of villagers even offered a $120,000 reward for Amin's head-literally-on a platter...
...shrewd politician. He helped negotiate a $20 million loan from Britain. which also granted the new micro-nation title to Aldabra, a world-renowned tropical bird sanctuary, and to two other islands. The Seychelles are halfway between Africa and Asia, and Mancham is adamant about keeping the Indian Ocean "a peaceful lake." He has assured United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that "we will do everything we can to avoid getting involved in big-power confrontations." Mancham adds: "We may not have much of a role to play in major global issues," referring to the fact the Seychelles Republic...