Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soultana, 60, were living together in a one-room apartment in the northern Greek town of Edessa. "I am not unfaithful to my husband." said Soultana. "I had warned him that if Athanassios ever came back, I would go with him immediately." At first Soultana's husband sent police after the couple, but now reportedly has agreed to a divorce. "We will be married." insisted Athanassios confidently, just as he had vowed 45 years...
...after that, the ship was. abandoned in perfect order. In 35 minutes the Skaubryn was roaring from end to end like an acetylene torch, but every passenger and seaman was in the safety of lifeboats on the calm sea. As long as they were able, the two radio operators sent out SOS signals. The ship's master, Captain Alf Faeste, was the last man off, sliding down a rope with the log book. There was only one casualty: a German businessman died in his lifeboat of a heart attack...
...long roll of wrack at sea, the burning of the Skaubryn will be remembered as a disaster where men triumphed, and not the elements. The master of City of Sydney sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat in lowering 16 boats containing 1,300 people into the water in 35 minutes without loss of life or injury, with so little warning, and from a blazing ship, is a superb example of seamanship and discipline unique in maritime history. When you speak of this disaster, you can hold your heads...
...with evangelical fervor, wrung cheers from Newfoundland fishermen who still use Elizabethan turns of speech, touched off one of melting-pot Winnipeg's wildest political demonstrations. And most surprising, it galvanized French-speaking Liberal Quebec into returning the biggest Tory delegation (50 of 75 seats) it has ever sent to Ottawa...
Last week Maserati skidded off the track. The government-owned bank Credito Italiano asked that Adolfo Orsi be declared bankrupt, impounded Maserati's assets, sent the shamed Orsis into hiding. Adolfo owed the bank $15,600 and had written a check with no funds to cover it. But that was only part of the reason. For the Orsis, the bright fame of Maserati had been gradually turned by many fine Latin hands from a blessing into a curse...