Word: beach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treaty, which now must be ratified by 22 nations including the U.S. and Russia, would ban nuclear weapons and other means of "mass destruction" from the ocean floor more than twelve miles offshore. The pact would not beach missile-carrying submarines. But it would place the seabed off limits to fixed installations, including nuclear mines, silos that could house nuclear missiles, and chemical-and biological-warfare devices...
...dark shore from their boat, anchored off the bleak, remote Greek isle of Amorgos. Finally, they spotted the faint beam of a flashlight. By walkie-talkie, they confirmed that their man was ready to be picked up. Two crewmen hopped into a rubber dinghy and paddled to the beach. Twenty minutes later, they were back with a passenger: George Mylonas, 50, Greece's former Under Secretary for Education, who had been exiled to the island 14 months earlier by the military junta as a "threat to public security...
Kramer answered questions after the preview of Santa Vittoria, rolling his answers off smoothly. If he were black today, he said, he would be out burning buildings. But he is not black, he pointed out, and so he made a movie as something "positive." After On the Beach and Judgment at Nurenberg, he wanted something with a sense of human triumph...
LESLIE GOODMAN-MALAMUTH Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...Tempe's just opened "Big Surf," the nearest ocean is 350 miles away, the sand beach was trucked in from Phoenix, and the waves are manmade. Yet beyond any doubt, surfing it is. Every 40 seconds, a new wave cascades from one end of the 2½ acre lagoon, carrying as many as 30 boards and bodies on waves up to five feet high. "You don't have to wait for that big one to come along," says Hawaii's Surfing Champion Fred Hemmings Jr., head instructor at the facility. "The surf is always...