Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siren burst into a jubilant roar; she was off Bishop Rock, 2,982 miles from Ambrose Lightship, after a crossing of only 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. She had averaged 35.59 knots, had knocked 10 hr. 2 min. off the old mark. The Queen Mary's skipper, outward bound, sent her a sportsmanlike message: "Godspeed. Welcome to the Atlantic. Am sacking my chief engineer." Said the new ship's beaming skipper, Commodore Harry Manning: "I've still got more speed up my sleeve- we were just cruising...
...rather respectable close. Though an inexpert play, and less a play than a picture, this American National Theater & Academy offering is veined with honest purpose and streaked with effective observation. A study of a family, it portrays the frazzled emotions and jangled nerves, the inner gnawing that makes for outward nagging, of lives lived under constant pressure. A harassed jeweler (Anthony Ross) lives over his shop with his long-suffering, short-tempered wife (Margaret Feury). Their son won't take a job in the shop and can't keep a job elsewhere; their grown daughter can only have...
...Outward bound for India, Liz Redwood, 37, is a tense package. After a few days at sea, she confides in another woman passenger: "What would you say . . . if I told you I was a woman . . . taken in adultery." The other passenger advises Liz to forget it and enjoy the trip. But Liz can't forget, and can't forgive herself. Her husband Charles, a steady fellow who works for the State Department, had been terribly understanding about the whole thing, too. But Liz insisted on a separation, and a trip to India, to find herself...
Pedro took to his heels and a fortnight later, disguised in women's clothes, was picked up in the captain's cabin of a ship outward-bound for Borneo. He was just fitting a woman's wig to his head when two of Magsaysay's men arrested him. From the papers tucked in his clothes, the agents who captured him soon gleaned even more information: Pedro was not only a Communist spy, he had apparently been marked down for liquidation by the Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They...
About this inward theme of guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...