Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night Tide. Amidst the clapboard and tinsel of the amusement park at Venice, Calif., a siren song lures a young sailor toward destruction. He meets a girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...
...foreign aid program, the situation may already have gone beyond remedy by words, no matter how reasonable. Not even a bipartisan effort by the Senate's leaders could stem the anti-foreign aid tide. In the vain hope of preventing worse cuts, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen had agreed to drop $385 million from the $4.2 billion recommended by Foreign Relations. But the Senate went even farther, whacked $25 million from the Development Loan Fund, $125 million from the President's foreign aid contingency fund, reapplied $75 million of that to increase the Alliance...
...insisted that they are less than the risks of gastrectomy and similar operations to which ulcer patients might otherwise be subjected. True, even on his own service at the University of Minnesota hospitals, two patients have had perforated gastric ulcers after freezing, and a few have needed transfusions to tide them over temporary bleeding. But all told, 1,200 patients in three carefully planned research projects* have had their stomachs frozen, and there have been no deaths from the treatment...
Sunset was never intended to play social conscience to the West. Until 1928, it was just another provincial literary magazine, plunging downhill in San Francisco. That year a migrant Kansan named Laurence W. Lane bought Sunset. An outdoorsy type himself, Lane took shrewd aim at the tide of sun worshipers flowing West and set out to make Sunset their guidebook...
...rich revenues from the consortium, President Tubman and his ministers went on a spending and building spree that landed Liberia in bad financial straits last spring. Tubman, 68, had to promise the International Monetary Fund that Liberia would enact fiscal reforms in return for an IMF loan to tide the country over until its profits from LAMCO begin to build up in six or seven years...