Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danced the New Year in at seaside hotels, two Egyptian corvettes, which had slipped up the coast in the dark, opened fire on the city. Israeli shore batteries fired back. A quarter of an hour later, as Israeli planes roared out to attack, the corvettes slunk off to the south...
Paintings of splintered ships, overturned buggies, dying patients, collapsing floors and falling chandeliers line the walls of many a South-of-France chapel. In each picture the Virgin Mary or a patron saint also appears, serene and smiling above the disaster. Done in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, the paintings are "ex-votos" (thank offerings) by parishioners who were grateful for narrow escapes from death. No one knows who painted most of them; the donor-not the artist-usually got his name in the corner...
...together. They skimped on food and entertainment. Ben haunted the practice tee, even brought his putter back to the hotel to practice on the rug. By 1940, he was beginning to look like a golfer. He came in second in six consecutive tournaments, finally won Pinehurst's North & South Open. That year he finished as golf's top money-winner (with $10,656), repeated in 1941 (with $18,358) and again in 1942 (with...
...colds at Bethesda. The week before the MRi announcement, he married blonde Bacteriologist Maxine McCall, who worked with him in the experiments. Dr. Atlas, who used to catch a cold every two weeks until he started wearing a special face mask while making tests, headed south with his bride for what he hoped would be a cold-free honeymoon...
...told, 37,000 U.S. wells were sunk, including one 27 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico; 8,000 miles of pipelines were laid, and 62 tankers were being built to bring in oil from South America and the Middle East. Domestic demand kept rising also until it reached 622 gallons per capita, v. 464 in 1941. Yet oil production at year's end was 17% above the wartime high; the shortage had been licked so thoroughly that some oil prices had started to drop...