Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sirens and Scyllas seen by all the storm-tossed mariners, she was the first and only daughter of her finny race to serve as Neptune's permanent, peaceful ambassador to the footed world. Inspired by the Andersen story, a sculptor gave her form. Her abode became a wave-washed rock outside Copenhagen's harbor; her sleek, demure figure personified the life-giving sea and sea-sustained Denmark...
Donovan first met Abel in 1957 when the court appointed him to handle the Red spy's defense. The Government's case appeared airtight; the FBI had bagged Abel with all the paraphernalia of his trade-short-wave radios, hollowed-out bolts and tie clasps, coded messages, code book, microfilm equipment, and marked maps of major U.S. defense installations. Though Abel was found guilty, Donovan's contention that the Government's evidence had been illegally obtained without a warrant nearly caused the Supreme Court to reverse the conviction on appeal. Before sentence was passed, Donovan urged...
...months ago, President Arturo Illia, 63, an obscure back-country physician, took office in Argentina amid a wave of good will and relief. At the time a foreign diplomat said: "The best thing Dr. Illia could do is to do nothing for six years." That seems to be exactly what the good grey doctor has in mind; he seldom leaves the palace, makes few speeches and fewer decisions. Yet by doing almost nothing, Illia seems to be giving Argentines what they need-a healing peace to recover from the 18 months of military-dominated government and economic confusion that followed...
...neutralist regime. Given the petty politicking still being waged by Vietnamese politicians six months after the U.S.-encouraged overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem,* such a prospect is not impossible. Premier Nguyen Khanh so far has had the barracks behind him, but at week's end yet another wave of coup rumors rippled through Saigon, then subsided. No one realizes more clearly the possible repercussions of another coup than U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who has been the No. 1 symbol of all-out support for Khanh. At a Washington cocktail party recently, McNamara was overheard to quip...
...were constant storms, and one night aurora borealis was out. Lookout was on the bridge--you would have been washed from the bow the way a seatainer trailor was washed from its lashings. Standing there and sighting along the ship, you felt yourself rise with a rumble over a wave, plunging down into the black night water. Then the foam broke over the bow and your eyes without moving your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light, for about a half hour; clinging to the rail. Life...