Word: scylla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twin tests of "reasonableness" and "non-discrimination" have become, after numerous CAB and court rulings, the Scylla and Charybdis between which any proposed fare must chart a course in order to gain approval. Non-discrimination is, of course, the test that the court and the Examiner claim Youth Fare does not pass. But the question of "reasonableness" is also worth looking at, if only to dispel the misconceptions of those who resented Youth Fare...
Like wandering Odysseus, the Harvard hockey team has escaped the clutches of the Cyclopes in Maine and the Laestrygonians in New Hampshire; miraculously skirted disaster between the Scylla and Charibdis of upstate New ork; and finally returned home -- only to find a cocky band of pretenders, the icemen from Providence, waiting in Watson Rink to pose still another big test tonight...
That mainstream, in Javits' view, weaves between the Scylla of the right, with "those who ignore international realities and look back with nostalgia to the economic jungle of the 19th century," and to the left, the Charybdis of "increasing control over the nation's economic and social life." He feels it is the responsibility of Republican liberals to chart a mid-channel course, thus offering the voter a choice "between a Democratic Party which instinctively leans on the Government to solve any problem, and a Republican Party which instinctively seeks ways to bring the resources of the business community into...
...Strait of Messina, a turbulent, six-mile-wide ribbon of water that separates Sicily from the toe of Italy, has never been a popular place for water sports. It was the home of Scylla and Charybdis, the mythological monsters that wrecked ships and snatched unsuspecting seamen from their decks. And if sailors beware, swimmers positively shun the place. Only the very rash-or the very bold-venture into its treacherous currents...
...Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla and Charybdis: "I've given up two years of my life. I'm broke...