Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some pundits it appeared that Yemen's loose, 18-month-old "federation" with Nasser's United Arab States had at last begun to undermine the foundations of the Imam's medieval theocracy. But they were reckoning without the Imam. Bustling back to his Red Sea domain with a shipload of wives and concubines, the Sword of Islam flashed commandingly. "I swear by Allah." he proclaimed from his palace balcony in the sun-charred seaport of Hodeida. "that I shall behead every black and every white whenever a complaint is lodged. There have been misdeeds-by hooligans...
...chasm between them widened to form the Atlantic. The ridge reflects the shape of the shores on both sides of it, and it emphasizes the remarkable fact that if the New World were pushed eastward, it would fit with some precision into the western shore of the Old World...
...Mile Crack. In pursuit of this theory the Lamont men, soon helped by other oceanographers, followed the crack in the sinuous ridge. Sometimes they spotted it on new depth charts, sometimes on old ones. When they noticed that many shallow earthquakes came from under it, they searched seismograph records for similar earthquake centers in unsounded parts of the oceans. By last week the Lamont men could trace the cracks 40,000 miles clear around the earth (see map). As in the Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land...
Heezen thinks that the Atlantic Ocean is a very old crack that has rifted over and over and grown 3,000 miles wide. Its sides may still be moving apart at the rate of about one yard in 1,000 years. At the other extreme are young rifts like those in East Africa that have not had time to split more than once. Eventually they may grow into oceans as wide...
Right from the start, the British press had known in its heart of hearts that little solidly detailed news could be expected from President Eisenhower's private, informal talks with Prime Minister Macmillan. Touring Europe to sound out old allies on the eve of this month's visit from Russia's Khrushchev, Eisenhower was hardly likely to spread out his cards to please newsmen-and let the Russians count the pips. Even so, British newsmen built up tall hopes for high headlines. And when they were disappointed, they turned with fury on the handiest fall guy: Presidential...