Word: strait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should bring up the fact that the people of China who reside on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are in need of forming a binding reunion. Some individuals in the Reagan Administration spare no pains in building a wall of antagonism by selling arms to Taiwan...
...ensemble splits into three broad geographical areas: Africa, the Americas and Oceania (that vast and anthropologically complex area from Easter Island to the Torres Strait, embracing the scattered island cultures of the Pacific as well as Australia and New Guinea). The sweep of the collection reminds one that at almost any time in the world's history up to now, the overwhelming majority of art made for any purpose at all was what we call primitive: that is, in the words of Douglas Newton, curator of the Met's new wing: "Primitive culture has been the major part...
...weak Mexico to cede the Catalina Islands, off the coast of Southern California, in 1913. Santa Catalina is now the Japanese Hong Kong, a center of industrial activity whose smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced to give up Russian America, sometimes known as Alaska. Now, under its young and aggressive new Tsar, Nicholas VII, it seems determined to regain that conquered territory and plunge the world into what could well be the first world...
Embarking from Seattle, the Cavalier plows north through the stomach-turning swells of the Gulf of Alaska and the whipping gales of Bristol Bay. It squirts through the Bering Strait and after two weeks reaches the most perilous leg of the 3,200-mile journey: the 270-mile trip from Wainwright on the western flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts...
...example, when the French were fighting in Viet Nam, he foresaw nothing but swamps. "I'm convinced that no military victory is possible in that kind of theater," he noted. In 1955 members of his Cabinet predicted imminent war with Red China in the Formosa Strait. Ike knew better: "I have so often been through these periods of strain that I have become accustomed to the fact that most of the calamities that we anticipate really never occur...