Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal efficiency. Yet, during the past year, a 140-mile-wide strip of this inhospitable country bordering the Beaufort Sea was the scene of frantic activity as more than a dozen big oil companies conducted seismic tests and drilled exploratory holes in preparation for Alaska's "Great Oil Rush...
Last week part of that treasure produced a scene reminiscent of the land-rush days of the old West. At stake was not land or gold, but oil-an estimated 5 billion to 10 billion barrels -that lies below the tundra of Alaska's North Slope. Gathered in a concrete auditorium in Anchorage, executives of 50 oil companies bid for the right to explore for oil along a 140-mile coastal stretch of state-owned land. When the bidding ended, Alaska was richer by $862,297,961.05-more than has been mined in yellow gold in the past...
...never-ending feud with his superiors in Foggy Bottom. Wrote Galbraith in 1961, as tensions were rising between India and Pakistan: "One of our carriers brought twelve supersonic jets to Karachi, where they were unloaded in all the secrecy that would attend mass sodomy on the BMT at rush hour." On Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "He is so firmly fixed in my mind as a cautious, self-constricted man that I delight in actions that will disturb him." Concludes Galbraith: "The State Department has a sense of tradition. It believes that because we had a poor foreign policy under...
...system that he felt at the patched seat of his pants. He writes of his Dublin boyhood as that of "a penniless snob." But if his poverty denied him the class privilege of a university education, it gave him great freedom of mind. He could be depended upon to rush in where pedants feared to tread. At the drop of a bourgeois top hat, he would discourse on Moses or municipal drains, on Marx or Michelangelo. Browbeating the Church of England for paganism or instructing mothers on how they should train children-it was all one to Shaw...
...mile drift up the Atlantic coast in the Gulf Stream. Piccard and his five companions spoke of massive undersea waves caused by the swirling of the Gulf Stream's powerful current around uncharted "hills" on the ocean floor. Their 140-ton craft was helplessly tossed about in the rush of water and actually shoved 28 miles west-out of the stream. They were nearly as surprised by what seemed to be huge coral formations at an unprecedented depth of 1,700 feet-indicating that the coastline around Charleston, S.C., once lay 70 miles farther out in the Atlantic...