Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wondering when you people were going to start recognizing the Cowboys. They may make movies about Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers, but it's Tom Landry and those marvelous cogs in that Dallas Machine who make history...
Since becoming chief of the CIA last March, Admiral Stansfield Turner has come on like David Farragut at Mobile Bay: Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Turner gave orders to discharge 820 spooks. He then dismissed Deputy Director for Operations William Wells, who had carried out the firing. The admiral also surrounded himself with former naval officers as high-level subordinates...
...such environmental polemics were common and often overstated. Mrs. Simon is quiet and less acrimonious. She makes it clear that the seas and coast lines need not die. She hails the invaluable work that has been done to preserve New York's Jamaica Bay and California's San Francisco Bay, and she applauds new environmental laws aimed at halting destruction of wetlands, banning offshore dumping, regulating shoreline development. But, she warns, even these are not enough. "The record of our action allows some hopes that there may still be flocks of birds flying low over the shore...
Flooding also forced the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to shut down the Red Line yesterday because of deep water near the Kendall Square stop, but all other lines were running. The MBTA is operating a bus shuttle from Park Street to Harvard Square for the duration of the shutdown...
...just risen over the northeastern tip of Long Island, and an icy wind was blowing in from Gardiners Bay. Except for screeching herring gulls and other hungry birds, the only sign of life on this blustery (20° F.) winter morning was a small column of people bundled against the cold and quietly stalking across a frozen marsh. "Hey, there's a blackback!" exclaimed their leader. "And look over there, some goldeneyes." Fighting through thick reeds and tall grass, the bird watchers soon spotted other feathered friends: half a dozen stout-bodied, short-necked diving ducks called white-winged...