Word: straitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier sanctuary in extended and therefore deeper territorial seas. Furthermore, the elimination of the three-mile limit would abolish the. free channels through such narrow bodies of water as the Strait of Gibraltar (7.75 miles wide at its narrowest point), could seriously hamper friendly naval movement between the islands of Indonesia. To the newer nations of the world, such arguments carried no weight...
...martial law and are plagued by rationing,* by 4 p.m. curfews, and the constant dread of bombardment, a cease-fire would be a welcome birthday present indeed. But they will apparently have to do without it. The Prince is made nervous by Communist gains in Indonesia, just across the Strait of Malacca, and is eager to get his own house in order...
Temperance. In Eton, England, a teacher at strait-laced Eton Public School said in an interview with a visiting American that the well-bred Etonians are permitted neither to smoke nor drink, and -in answer to the question "what about dates?"-said "Certainly, as long as they don't eat too many...
...market for thrills a fairly good run for his money. Based on the 1955 bestseller by Navy Captain Edward L. Beach (at that time President Eisenhower's Navy aide), the film gets under way as Commander Clark Gable, U.S.N.. loses his submarine in Japan's Bungo Strait. Desked in Honolulu, he strikes for another command and sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt Lancaster, who stays aboard as Gable's executive officer and makes no bones about his disappointment. What's more...
...rebel radio stridently claimed that the rebels had somewhere found a two-plane air force that had bombed Bandung, and a "navy" that was maneuvering in the Strait of Malacca. But Bandung was reported unbombed and the navy unsighted. In Singapore a U.S. squadron consisting of the cruiser Bremerton and two destroyers stood by, ready to evacuate U.S. civilians from the rubber plantations and oilfields if the war really hotted...