Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Varsity vs. W. Palm Beach...
...array of license plates from across the nation flocked to Salisbury. Battalions of observers armed with telescopes, cameras dwarfed by huge telephoto lenses, sketch pads and binoculars took up daily vigils. They lined the sea wall along one side of an estuary of the Merrimack River and the state beach opposite, eyes trained on the mud flats below...
Grand Policy. The main purpose of the three-day summit, held in the isolated beach resort of Club des Pins outside Algiers, was to fashion a united policy for the cartel for a grand negotiation with consumer nations, perhaps this summer. Though much of the OPEC rhetoric was as blustery as ever, there were clear indications that the oil producers were ready to bargain with the countries that have been struggling to pay for the fourfold increase in oil prices over the past 1½ years...
...first sounds of trouble came shortly before midnight when gunfire abruptly shattered the raucous gaiety of Tel Aviv's waterfront, a center of the city's night life. After killing a passing Israeli soldier who fired at them as they came up off the beach from their rubber dinghy, the commandos, loaded down with rucksacks and Kalashnikov rifles, ran down Samuel Esplanade, the main shore drive, firing at a movie theater and tossing grenades at a wedding hall. Passers-by fled in all directions, but few suspected an Arab attack. Said Gabi Edri, 17, a waiter...
...initial shooting lasted for five minutes. After a brief lull, there came sporadic bursts of gunfire from inside the Savoy, then the long staccato of a Kalashnikov. It was answered by the wind-sucking thump of an Israeli bazooka fired from the beach 100 yds. away. Suddenly the building shook with a tremendous explosion as a bomb rigged by the terrorists went off. The hotel's third and fourth floors collapsed in rubble. The attack was over...