Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a grotesque, hook-shaped inkblot, the oil spread menacingly across the water. Along a single stretch of Brittany beach, 25 species of dead fish were found. Vast beds of seaweed, which are harvested to make Pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, were destroyed. Thousands of oil-tarred birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther...
...Harvard men's varsity swim team finally came to the end of the long and winding road that began last October, as they spent the first weekend of the break earning a surprisingly strong 15th place finish at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Long Beach, California...
...expected, freshman standout Bobby Hackett led the Crimson cruise through Long Beach's Belmont Plaza Pool. The Yonkers flash placed in three individual events, and combined with teammates Malcolm Cooper, Julian Mack and Michael Coglin to grab the twelfth spot in the 800-yd. freestyle relay...
Instead, apparently due to a major navigational error, the outboard-powered rubber assault boats deposited the raiders on a remote beach near a kibbutz 40 miles north of Tel Aviv. The bewildered commandos, with no big hotel in sight, sat down and picnicked on the beach before deciding on an alternative plan. If not by boat, they would get to Tel Aviv...
...attackers' boats, camouflaged in black and gray, were not easy to spot. But Israeli naval and air patrols of the long shoreline failed miserably, perhaps in part because of a heavy sea that fouled radar reception. Even so, the terrorists lunched on the beach at high noon and rested for an hour before beginning their bloody hitchhike to Tel Aviv. No one disturbed them. They encountered a woman, Gail Rubin, taking pictures on the beach. After learning from her where they were, they killed...