Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO's control 40 to 100 miles off the British shore...
Success breeds success and Princeton's recruiting minions are now drumming up talent in areas which for years never knew Princeton had a football team. Several North Shore (Mass.) schoolboy gridders are in Princeton's class of 1956 and doubtless they won't be the last...
...last Isbrantsen Line ship in the news was the Flying Cloud, which attempted to break through a Chinese Nationalist blockade to reach Communist ports and was fired on and badly damaged by Nationalist shore batteries...
...comfortably in the Queen's most luxurious suites on M deck. For the P.M., in Cabin No. 80 (once occupied by Molotov), were a special seven-foot bed, 24 extra-size ashtrays to catch cigar ashes, a supply of brandy, and a personal radiophone for "scrambler" calls from shore. The departure was held up for 24 hours while a crew repaired damage suffered on the Queen's easterly crossing-"the worst crossing," said her skipper, "that I have made in 37 years...
...controls the sea around it. Some nations, e.g., Spain, Italy, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Brazil, claim a six-mile limit; others, e.g., the Scandinavians, claim four. Most countries accept the limit of three marine miles, a tradition that goes back to the 18th Century, when a good cannon on the shore could heave a ball three miles to sea.* But many governments have added qualifications which extend their claims beyond three miles, and they never have been able to agree on where the measuring begins. Some measure by the high-water mark, others low-water; others begin at a depth where...