Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concerned over the swelling tide of seaborne refugees, Hong Kong police have been searching up to 500 junks a day in the teeming waters around the city. But many slip through the cordon. When tragedy strikes, as it did for the 32 hapless victims who drowned off eastern Hong Kong, the trade falls off for a few days. Then the human cargos begin moving once more across the Pearl River estuary. Says Father Luis Ruiz of Macao's Roman Catholic Casa Ricci, which has sheltered more than 35,000 refugees from Red China in past years, "Nothing will stop...
What kind of crisis was this? Cuba? Berlin? Adlai? Taxes? No, it was about Jacqueline Kennedy and her press. As the Times story pointed out, Jackie has been the victim of a noisome tide of gossip stories in movie mags and Confidential-type rags. Month after month, Jackie's picture, and often Caroline's, has been splashed on the covers of such magazines. Teaser cover headlines are calculated to shill breathless readers into thinking that they will learn about the most intimate recesses of Jackie's life. The articles inside never live up to the billing. Samples...
During an earlier meeting, after the Kaiser boasted of his seven-foot German guardsmen, she replied: "When we open our dikes, the waters are ten feet deep." But in World War II it was the Dutch who were engulfed in a German tide...
MacDonald, Britain's first socialist Prime Minister, "Mac" MacDonald as Governor General in Malaya spurred the far-reaching social and economic reforms that helped turn the tide there against the Communists. Later he served as Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, last year was handed the delicate task of presiding (with a Soviet cochairman) over the protracted negotiations that led to the coalition government in Laos. A breezily informal administrator, MacDonald has frequently horrified pukka sahibs by allowing his photograph to be taken while walking hand in hand with bare-breasted native beauties. Among East-of-Suez Blimps, he earned...
...southern journalist noted significant advances which have been made "not because Georgia is a particularly liberal state, but simply because it has felt the tide of inevitable change." More and more, southern attitudes are chang- ing because "the people are being told that change is coming," said Galphin. They see the change in the events that are occurring and they feel in it their own hearts...