Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy unveiled the world's biggest amphibious helicopter, the twin-turbine-powered Sikorsky HSS-2, designed to set down on land or ocean's surface in all but the worst weather...
...Tillich has been for some of us the cathartic of Protestant traditionalism, providing a much needed theological and ecclesiastical enema. His thought is like the ocean -you can enjoy it from shore, you can cool off your feet, you can wade in and swim, you can jump in the middle and swim, but unfortunately, as the Herr Professor would be the first to agree, if you swallow too much too fast you can drown...
...North American defense terms, the most sensitive area of ocean on the globe is the stretch of the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and the Scotch coast. Over this area would fly any Russian bombers trying to end-run U.S.Canadian continental defenses; through these waters would likely come Russian submarines slipping out through the Norwegian Sea bound for attacks on Atlantic shipping or coastal cities. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy's around-the-clock fleets of radar patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers...
...that the British had whisked out of Nicosia by plane on a March afternoon in 1956, to exile in the remote Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, had come home-as exiled leaders usually do -a hero...
...chores. After a hearty breakfast (orange juice, cereal, bacon and eggs), he left his twelve-room white frame and fieldstone house, walked briskly to the barnyard. In the early morning mist the low-lying white barn, surmounted by five giant blue-black silos, rode the frozen prairie like an ocean liner. Like a rumble of surf came the hungry bellowing of 400 white-faced Herefords and the grunting of 500 Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs to be fed. In the barn. North stepped up to an instrument panel as intricate as a ship's, began...