Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tide of immigration, which built the railroads and cattle towns of the West, flowed on for another generation. Some 8.8 million arrived during the first decade of this century, and in 1907, the inspectors at Ellis Island processed an alltime daily record of some 6,500 Italian peasants and Greek fishermen and various other humble souls, many of them wide-eyed children clinging anxiously to the hands of their mothers...
...British attack began on a low tide at 11:15 o'clock on the morning of June 28. Clinton had landed 2,500 light infantry, grenadiers and seamen on an undefended island northeast of Sullivan's Island and separated from it by a shallow passage known as "the Breach." The original plan called for a wading infantry attack on Sullivan's Island and a simultaneous naval assault. Parker accordingly anchored most of his fleet, including the flagship Bristol and the Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound...
...deciding to join rather than oppose the tide of revolution, Dr. Witherspoon spared the College of New Jersey from the chaos that has recently enveloped campuses with less enlightened administrators. King's College in New York is still splitting its president's salary between two men-the president pro tempore, the Reverend Benjamin Moore, and the president de jure, the Reverend Myles Cooper. An ardent Loyalist, Cooper has been residing in England since he escaped from an angry mob of Patriots last year by climbing over the college fence and fleeing half-dressed to the Hudson...
...tide is turning. A decade ago A.D. Nuttall kicked off his intriguing book on the play thus: "The Winter's Tale is the most beautiful play Shakespeare ever wrote. It is a less intelligent play than Hamlet (but not much less intelligent). It is less profound than King Lear (but not much less)." And Fitzroy Pyle's more recent volume on the work should further the appreciation of its stature and consummate artistry...
...foreigners but the Lebanese as well. Of more than 20,000 dead, the bulk were civilians caught in crossfire. Prisoners were rarely taken. Many people were summarily executed on the basis of religious affiliation. Bodies were often mutilated. Christians imagined themselves being pushed into the sea by a Moslem tide. Palestinian guerrillas, righting alongside the predominantly Moslem left, saw the grim possibility of another Black September, a reference to their losing battle in 1970 with King Hussein's troops in Jordan. Lebanon, the Palestinians said, was the last place in which they retained any freedom of action. They would...