Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sappho are routine, and the randy-romantic Villon ploddingly pedestrian ("Oh where is last year's snow?"). The quiet golden glow of Leopardi's L'infinito, one of the supreme sonnets in all literature, is messily extinguished; the wild-strawberry innocence of Hebel's Sic Transit acquires a chemical tang of quick-frozen fruitiness; and the fine dandiacal glitter of the Baudelaires is spotted with phraseological mudballs-"this obscene beast," for instance, is scarcely a felicitous rendition of "ce monstre délicat...
...covers until 100 police drove them out with tear gas and Tommy-gun bursts. Week's toll: four dead, scores injured. At the height of the disorders, Washington confirmed that two brothers of the slain dictator. Héctor and José Arismendi Trujillo, had been granted U.S. transit visas for use on their way to somewhere else...
Even as the 80,000 East German Volkspolizei (People's Police) and Volksarmee (People's Army) troops were erecting their barricades across most of the 80 border-transit points last week, desperate clusters of East Berliners were still trying to break out to freedom. Only a few were successful. One elderly man and wife crawled on hands and knees across a cemetery near the boundary as "Vopos" strung barbed wire only 20 yds. away. A young married couple swam the Teltow Canal with their four-year-old child perched on his father's shoulders. A couple...
...capacity as front man, Ulbricht was providing a foretaste of harassments to come if the West refused to knuckle under. Among his chosen victims: Germany's Evangelical Church, which had arranged to hold their traditional annual Kirchentag this year in Berlin. Ulbricht's men denied transit for twelve special trains the church had chartered to bring delegates to West Berlin. A Communist official stopped East German Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, refused to let him proceed to Berlin. Church officials planned to hold part of the rally in East Berlin; Ulbricht vetoed...
...Transit is being injected with information on schedule, has proved its efficiency by giving land stations their already known positions. So far, it has not told any ships where they are on the ocean, but only because no ship at sea has the proper receiving equipment. Probably the first to get such equipment will be the nuclear submarines. When they poke a whip antenna above the surface to listen to Transit they will be able to tell where they are within 600 ft. A navigator who shoots the sun or stars with a sextant in good weather does an excellent...