Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years. 11. Eleven. 12. Gas, of course. 13. Whether they wanted rooms for sleeping or for jumping. 14. They had a joint account. 15. A free revolver. 16. October 23,1929. 17. He "had a better year." 18. "Begging and other acts." 19. My bonus lies over the ocean, My bonus lies over the sea, Tey gave all the dough to the Frenchmen, And n w they've got nothing for me." 20. Mac Arthur. 21. Hoover. 22. John J. O'Brien. 23. William Randolph Hearst. 24. "It's a lot easier." 25. "Every time an Administration official gives...
...nation's top general and its top civilian almost fell to blows last weekend--in a dispute over which of them should have given the order for a Navy carrier task force sailing toward the Indian Ocean to feint toward Vietnam, as a "warning to Hanoi." Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Henry A. Kissinger '50, secretary of state, evidently had no disagreement on the desirability of such a "signal of American determination"--though Brown, who after all lacks Kissinger's training as a historian, did not specifically suggest that the Gulf of Tonkin...
...Turkish peddlers, as Michael York and Jacqueline Bisset airily overturn a huge cart of oranges and step up into their carriage. Best of all, the Orient Express itself billows out steam that becomes a cloud of suspicion and hidden motives; it pulls out of the station like a great ocean liner out of port, its wheels grinding out screams that are the counterpoint to murder and conspiracy. Finally, the Express stops dead in the middle of a Yugoslavian blizzard that turns the entire screen white for just a moment. The train is utterly isolated, one of those Agatha Christie devices...
...hosts announced that our bus had arrived. We left the table and said good bye to our two waiters. They were very friendly and never tired of discussing politics with us. Outside, the sun stood in an ocean-blue background as fluffy white clouds floated by. It was a beautiful day for a field trip. We were on our way to the mountains--the Sierra Maestra mountains where Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other Cuban revolutionaries began a war which culminated in the liberation of Cuba...
...favorably with the late Maurice Ewing, who founded Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory and provided the theoretical basis for things like submarine geology and attempts to study the underwater mountain range that bisects the Atlantic. Nor does he slight the host of others who have mapped the ocean bottoms, peered into smoking volcanoes or attempted to drill through the earth's crust to the semimolten mantle that surrounds its liquid core. Along the way, Sullivan scatters suggestive pieces of evidence with a skill that would do credit to Agatha Christie. He points out that the ancestors...