Word: beached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night of the Fourth, when we landed on Mars, I walk the beach and watch the fireworks compete with the stars in the enormous black sky. This is Independence Day, and I am alone. So are we all. This is what we discover at times like these--the first flight around the moon, the moon walk, the probe of Jupiter, the Viking missions, and now this amazing, take-your-breath-away event. Errands into space lift us out of ourselves and return us to ourselves. They tell us that we are alone in the universe, and how terrible and wonderful...
...other ones go by. At Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came to build the WPA beach-front barriers, vacant lots were auctioned for $50 apiece. "Anyone who bought land and held onto it made money," says Fish Powell, especially after Highway 50 connected the Eastern Shore to the restless mainland. Now the price of a lot is in the high five figures, as the town...
...cork-and-silicon aeroshell should absorb most of this body blow. Both a parachute and a retrorocket will slow its plunge, and an array of airbags will inflate to cushion the shock of landing. And finally, the spacecraft will simply drop to the surface, striking the ground like a beach ball and rolling to a stop in the ancient floodplain...
...other men or women can take out of a book--be it murky wordplays about the future ("assassin will assassinate"), Euclid's geometry, clues to Agatha Christie murders ("the butler did it") or a recipe book in any language ("add a pinch of salt"). BERNARD W. POWELL North Miami Beach...
Maggiore has managerial experience from his work at his parents' Long Beach, Calif. restaurant and plans to use this to secure similar employment in the Cambridge-Boston area, Ocon said...