Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungry Camels. Long dismissed as a desert backwater with scant hope of achieving self-sufficiency, Jordan is astir. Last week 200 enthusiastic students checked in at the new University of Jordan, the country's first. In Amman, the advance wave of a Christmas tide of 25,000 Holy Land tourists gaped at the freshly built Amman Grand Hotel, a ten-story luxury hotel of white stone...
...Rising Tide. The news blackout did not affect syndicated columnists working out of New York, except to cost them their Manhattan outlets. The same held true for New York newspaper news services; their familiar bylines continued to appear out of town. Editions of New York pa pers published beyond New York, such as the Times's West Coast edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted...
...rising tide of out-of-town papers poured into the city. Some of the better afternoon imports-Philadelphia's Bulletin, for example- could only remind New-Yorkers of how sorely they needed a good afternoon paper of their own. Most of the morning imports were ordinary enough to revive memories of the quality of some of Manhattan's own morning press...
...research that turned the tide. Puttering in his factory laboratory, Rupert devised what he claims was the world's first king-size filter-tip cigarette. The new cigarette boosted Rembrandt sales so much that in 1953 Rupert bought out Rothman's South African operation. The following year he bought control of the British parent company...
...thou at home without or tide or gale, Canst in thy map securely sail... And from thy compast taking small advice Buy'st travel at the lowest price...