Word: strait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...
...survivors of Author McKie's title are ten men who went down with the Australian light cruiser Perth in Sunda Strait at 12:25 a.m. on March 1, 1942 and came up again to tell the tale. They told it after the war to Author McKie, an Australian newsman, who writes in a brisk style that makes for good reading, if for something less than the national epic he frankly says he intended...
...night Lieut. Gillan and several hundred of his shipmates went swirling down Sunda Strait toward the Indian Ocean through waters slick with oil and glaring in the searchlights of the triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...
...child. Her mother was a dancer-"or, rather," said Sand, "something lower than a dancer, in one of the most disreputable of the Paris theaters." Aurore was raised at the Dupin estate at Nohant by a strict grandmother and educated in Paris by English nuns. At 18, strait-laced but bursting with romantic ideas, she married Casimir Dudevant, an amiable but entirely unimaginative fellow who spent his days hunting, his evenings snoring...
...Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...