Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the islanders and the local white population (Australian airmen and their wives from West Island and the cable station men from Direction) and listening to native music, the royal couple set forth again, bearing delicate ship models as gifts for their children. King Ross himself stood by the wheel of their barge to guide it through the atoll's tricky shoals back to the Gothic, bound for Ceylon and more ceremonies, more crowds...
After the first kill, the spectators waited for the caparisoned mule team to enter the ring. Instead, when the gate opened, in drove Franklin, a broad grin on his tanned face, at the wheel of his Chrysler station wagon. The crowd watched in stunned silence as Franklin roped the bull's horns and tied the rope to the rear bumper. Back at the wheel, he towed the bull around the arena amidst an uproar of catcalls, hoots and laughter. Then he drove out. Three times that afternoon, Franklin drove into the ring and hauled away the carcass...
Like most children's drawings, these have the beauty of the gem raw from the mine. The sun is a spoked yellow wheel, a whale a colossal comma. Cannibals are orange, and look like fierce textiles. Flame is a fluttering rose. Whereas the best professional cartoons-those made by U.P.A. (TIME, Sept. 14)-seem like fine artifice, this one feels like crude...
...wheel of history came full circle last week. In Tokyo, the U.S. and Japan signed a mutual defense assistance agreement in which the U.S. undertakes to arm the nation it was fighting only nine years ago. The crucial clause: "The government of Japan . . . will make, consistent with the political and economic stability of Japan, the full contribution permitted by its manpower, resources, facilities, and general economic conditions to the development and maintenance of its own strength and the defensive strength of the free world...
...problems the oceanographers now face are as practical as the ends they hope to achieve. Scientific wrangling over what makes a current--the varying density of the water, or the winds, or a combination, is now no more academic palaver. The oceanographers regard the sea as the fly wheel in the metrological system. Effective weather predictions seems to depend on understanding the interchange between the ocean...