Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uranium mines traditionally had been controlled by French interests, including France's atomic energy commission and two private companies. Early last year Diori decided to break France's monopoly and awarded the lucrative exploration contract to Pan Ocean Oil, Ltd., a Canadian firm. Last week, shortly after he grabbed power, Kountie said he would reopen uranium negotiations with the French...
...symbolic technique. The fine net of images he weaves in Death, Sleep & the Traveller depends utterly on its unobtrusiveness and its reticence. Hawkes demonstrates tight-rope delicacy in bringing off the most predictable of metaphors, as when Allert feels in his own large body the dangerous stasis of the ocean liner unmoving in a rough sea. Surely the reader does not need to be bludgeoned with such passages...
AVERY'S SUBJECTS manifest this energy because he forms them with lines that breathe and kick and cry with the force of a newborn child. In his drypoint "Umbrella by the Sea" (1948), he expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety...
Florida's briny ocean winds ceaselessly whine through the deserted tower on Cape Canaveral's Pad 14, where John Glenn rocketed into space on Feb. 20, 1962, to become the first American to orbit the earth. The spindly tower sways under the gusts, and bits of rusting steel are flecked into the jumble of weeds and decaying cables entwined around its feet...
...inhumane school system and an inflexible principal (the former represented by Hume Cronyn in one of his patented portrayals of the small in spirit; the latter played with a not unsympathetic strength by Madge Sinclair). Many of the children cannot spell their names; none know the name of the ocean that surrounds them. The surf regularly claims lives among them because no one-until Conroy-has taught them to swim...