Word: tidal
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...play is lightly splashed with irony and symbolism; beyond his other functions, the soldier, with his yowling for the noose, exemplifies a certain dogged modern-day pessimism. But the play is not to be dredged for large meanings. It says, if it says anything, that life itself is a tidal wave that overflows all philosophic sea walls...
...Korea's west coast), the northbound flow tide tends to swing to the east. Reason: as the water moves away from the equator, it passes points on the earth's surface that are moving less & less rapidly toward the east in the earth's rotation. The tidal range of Korea's western coast is further increased because the incoming water is forced into narrow, shallow channels and heaped up there. Inchon, which lies on the western coast of the peninsula about 20 miles up a narrow channel, has an average tidal range in the time...
Comparative time trial records for the two crews are inconclusive because of extremes in tidal conditions on the Thames. Daytime water conditions have been sufficiently unpleasant during the day this bring to force the crews to practice at 6:30 a.m. and a similar time at night...
...senior Senator from Texas waggled his head and asked plaintively: "Is there nothing beyond the reach of arbitrary power?" Tom Connally was complaining about last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision, which took away control of the tidal oil lands in the Gulf of Mexico from Texas and Louisiana and gave it to the Federal Government...
Friends in Congress of the oilmen hoped to settle things another way; they wanted Congress to upset the Supreme Court ruling and turn the tidal lands back to the states. But there seemed small chance of any such quick congressional action. Furthermore, many a citizen in and out of Congress thought that the conservation of tidal oil and its future development by private companies could be done better under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government than the states...