Word: styx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including 80 new MIG-21 fighters and SU-9 fighter-bombers and 200 tanks for Egypt, 40 planes and 100 tanks for Syria and 20 planes for Iraq. In addition, the Russians have given Egypt, Syria and Algeria some 40 Komar patrol boats, which carry the Styx missile of the type that sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said last October. The Soviets have doubled the number of military advisers in Egypt to at least 2,000 and have sent large training missions to Algeria, Iraq, Syria and Yemen...
...waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities of fecal bacteria, closing out the light and consuming oxygen...
Will Moses reach the Promised Land? Will Dante get across the Styx? The Bible and The Divine Comedy are not generally thought of as cliff hangers, but that is just what they have become to millions of Italians. Each week readers rush to the newsstands-which also prominently display dozens of girlie publications-to buy magazine-like booklets that contain installments from a classic or an encyclopedia. The idea of dispensing culture in weekly dollops has brought a fortune to the three Milanese publishers who conceived...
...Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
Regine Crespin has an amazing voice. She recently pleased New York critics as the Marschallin in the Lotte Lehmann-directed Rosenkavalier at the Met, but New York has not yet heard anything like her "Divinites du Styx," which nearly knocked me out of my seat Thursday night...