Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boards and rooftop water tanks that would become deadly projectiles if a real hurricane hit. It has square miles of densely populated and easily flooded lowlands. Many of its roadways and railroads run just above high water, and networks of tunnels and basements stand ready to gulp a hurricane tide...
Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...
Prefab schools are not a new idea, but heretofore most of them have been cheaply built temporary wooden buildings lacking in conveniences. There are signs that the tide is now turning to well-planned permanent prefabs, sturdily constructed of steel, glass, wood and Fiberglas. School officials are frantically trying to find space for the horde of youngsters crowding the bulging public schools. This fall, says the U.S. Office of Education, there will be a shortage of 250,000 classrooms. Many communities simply cannot afford to build the school buildings they need; others have changing needs and such schools...
...things -the bales of cotton, bushels of corn, ingots of steel-is a byproduct of these three primary riches, not the take from a geographic roulette wheel or the hoard of materialist greed. Today's drive of the U.S. Negro toward equality is as strong as any social tide in Asia or Africa or Europe. At the centers of those other drives for change stand agitators, conspirators, men of violence. The strength and flexibility of the U.S. Constitution make possible the fact that the man at the vortex of the Negro issue in the U.S. is a constitutional lawyer...
...businessmen with investments to protect, that was no way out. In any case, it was doubtful that the offer meant peace on the Korean scene; the embattled businessmen were not bucking merely the whim of Korea's stubborn, proud old President Syngman Rhee. They were bucking a tide of nationalism that has swept through Asia. In much of the non-Communist East, many governments are putting pressure on employees of U.S. and other foreign companies to pack up and go back home...