Word: oceaneering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Matadi is Zaire's outlet to the ocean, paved and built up by the Belgians before they left in the violent early 1960's. There haven't been any new buildings for a long time, and marks of civilization, like the concrete slabs covering the sewer ditches, are falling apart. Like center cities everywhere, Matadi is giving way to the suburbs: the villages which crowd the circle of hills around the city now use shale-and-cement and concrete blocks for building materials instead of woven cane and occasional tin-and-plywood...
Lisbon decided to free its African territories, hundreds have died in racial clashes. As many as 50,000 whites (out of 220,000) have fled the Indian Ocean country, and planes and boats are fully booked until independence day. Not all of them have left for racial reasons; some fear that the all-black administration that will replace the joint Portuguese-Mozambique transition government will become a left-wing dictatorship...
...leading seventeenth century philosopher and founder of modern pedagogy left Czech lands in 1620 to avoid persecution, fored Germanization and Catholicization, he was invited to become the first president of Harvard; he turned the offer down. What on earth had that obscure place on the other side of the ocean to offer the most prominent Czech intellectual of his time...
...classic geographic-strategic considerations in foreign policy are now clearly intersected and overlaid by a whole mosaic of economic and technological considerations. It still matters to the U.S., for all the sound traditional reasons, whether the Soviet Union acquires Atlantic Ocean naval facilities from Portugal. But it might matter to us just as much how the new King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and his half-brother Prince Fahd feel about the U.S. The lines of north-south traffic and controversy between the major raw-materials producers and consumers are a kind of Crosshatch over the familiar national lines of conflict...
...fabled isles, the sun and spray, the moonlight murmurings-were not for those aboard the French Line's Mermoz. The passengers, in fact, had little stomach for anything but their stomachs; the ship's 470 well-heeled and generally well-fleshed guests had signed up for an ocean voyage dedicated solely to gastronomy...