Word: straitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three of the broad objectives. The U.S. wants Red China to 1) agree to adopt the U.S. principle of "no recourse to force," 2) order its marauding pilots to stop shooting down peaceful Western planes, and 3) join the U.S. in examining the possibility of ceasefire in the Formosa Strait. Should the parley at the base camp progress smoothly, Dulles might later be prepared to meet Chou Enlai...
...There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish somehow, they don't mind so much about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly that...
Though top-level strategy is hammered out collectively, execution and considerable power of discretion is often delegated to one committee member. Thus, Molotov at San Francisco agreed to pay half the cost of a U.S. plane shot down over the Bering Strait, after only the most casual refer-back to Moscow. Mikoyan, negotiating the economic clauses of the Austrian state treaty, accepted a sizable reduction in Austria's reparations payments without leaving the room...
Juan de Fuca Strait, a frigid, 18-mile channel that separates Vancouver Island from the state of Washington, challenges distance swimmers with the same fierce fascination that Mount Everest arouses in mountaineers. Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours...
...Then, after a cup of coffee, he was whisked off to Victoria for a municipal welcome. Later, with nearly $3,000 in prize money and bonuses in his pocket, he expanded on his plans: "I'd like to try the Golden Gate swim and after that the Gibraltar strait. If I don't get too old, I'd like to break every swimming record there...