Word: bombardment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man had sailed alone on his raft for 51 days. When he boarded the British freighter Arakaka in the Atlantic three weeks ago, he had a thick, dark beard, and his rotted clothing was caked with salt and fish blood. He was a Frenchman named Alain Louis Bombard, 28, he told open-mouthed passengers and crewmen. He had set out on the raft from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in mid-October. Since then, he had lived solely on food and drink gathered at sea: fish, sea birds, barnacles, plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating...
Channel Storm. A plump, eupeptic medical doctor, Bombard began developing his theory in 1951, when he and a friend were caught in a storm while venturing across the English Channel in a small rubber boat. The craft tossed about for five days, and in that time Bombard and his companion had nothing to eat except half a kilo of butter they had brought along as a gift for a friend in England. This experience would have soured most men on seafaring for life, but in Bombard it kindled a consuming interest in the techniques of survival. Bombard persuaded a Dutch...
...time in the last six months. Yet he still talked about $150 million, with no strings attached, as his price for reopening negotiations. U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and British Charge d'Affaires George Middleton did not think Britain ought to pay that much, but they did bombard Washington and London with urgent pleas for some further concessions to Mossadegh. By week's end London was still standing pat on its previous offer (to buy Iranian oil now in storage tanks, price to be fixed later, plus a $10 million bonus thrown in by the U.S.). The U.S., whose...
...Warren frees the delegation in Chicago. Last week Ike's California strategists sat for eight hours in a room at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, drinking coffee, eating buttered snails and planning a four-week splurge that may even make California's eyes pop. They will bombard the delegates with mail and telegrams, have helicopters drop out of the sky to pick up signatures on Ike petitions, and otherwise seek to show that the voters want Ike. There is talk that some of the pros from the Eisenhower headquarters want to move into California to work...
...these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow got no Government insurance. Neither she nor her daughter would receive a pension. Ruth Crawshaw, who went back to nursing, was determined to clear her husband's name. She began to bombard the Navy, the Veterans' Bureau, Congressmen and the White House with letters. Some powerful allies, including the American Legion, came to her aid. In 1926 the Navy reopened the case, but nothing came of it. Mrs. Crawshaw appealed to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt. Bills to correct the record...