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Word: sea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three of the Green Berets were intelligence specialists. According to one story, the victim was a Vietnamese spy for the Americans, who had disappeared when he was discovered to be a double agent. No body has been found, and rumor has it that the victim was disposed of at sea. Such a killing would not be unique in Viet Nam, not difficult to disguise. Why the Army chose to publicize the case is another mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Mystery of the Green Berets | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...assumed that his craft was in the wake of an oil tanker that had just cleaned its tanks. But on five occasions he ran into the same substances covering the water so thickly, he told TIME Researcher Nancy Williams, that "it was unpleasant to dip our toothbrushes into the sea. Once the water was too dirty to wash our dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water: Shock at Sea | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...experience will stir the U.N. to propose new international regulations to keep the oceans clean. "Modern man seems to believe that he can get everything he needs from the corner drugstore," says the explorer. "He doesn't understand that everything has a source in the land or sea, and that he must respect those sources. If the indiscriminate pollution continues, we will be sawing off the branch we are sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water: Shock at Sea | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...threatened to sail straight out into the audience. Svoboda and Everding even had the audacity to stage the finale the way Wagner wrote it (most producers are afraid it will look corny), with the ship plunging beneath the waves and Senta and the Dutchman walking out of the sea and into the glowing red sunrise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: High-Flying Dutchman | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...islands. The neighboring islands of Chios and Inoussai, for example, have produced such shipping families as Lemos, Kulukundis, Pateras, Carras, Papalios-who collectively own more than one-third of Greek shipping. Nothing grows on these rough islands, and the only way to make a living is to go to sea. Traditionally, boys begin as sailors and send their wages back to the island to feed the family. If enough sons go to sea, the family may eventually save enough money to buy an old boat and members of the clan man the vessel. If the ship makes money, the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: The Other Greeks | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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