Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Generally, Mr. Khrushchev did not talk in terms of war. He believes the world will move his way without resort to force. Most of all, he predicted the triumph of Communism in the new and less-developed countries. He was certain that the tide there was moving his way, that the revolution of rising peoples would eventually be a Communist revolution, and that the so-called wars of liberation supported by the Kremlin would replace the old methods of direct aggression...
...blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned...
...Communism is not riding a tide of inevitable triumph in Asia...
Such pleasures serve to ease Tahiti's few discomforts. There are only 275 rooms for tourists on the island, though promoters are doing their best to put up 200 more before the big tide washes in this summer. Most popular place is the Hotel Tahiti (18 suites with bath, $20 a day, without meals), and it is plainly not yet the Tahiti Hilton. Most hotels feature an awesome variety of roaches, flies and hairy spiders...
Already in place were six sunken, 5,000-ton concrete caissons developed from types used by the Allies in World War II as assault jetties at Normandy beachheads. Four tugs heaved at the seventh caisson, precisely long enough to fill the remaining 140-ft. gap, fighting the surging tide to keep it poised over its eventual resting place atop an asphalted nylon mat that anchors the shifting sands of the sea's bottom. Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks...