Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Along the East Coast we've had major problems with all kinds of trash and garbage slicks, plastic slicks, green tides, red tides, black tides, beach closings. You name it, we've had it along the East Coast because we've treated the ocean in many instances like a repository of last resort," Hughes said...
First, the Fourth of July celebration on The Mall in Washington, D.C. Recently, the traditional day-long concert featuring the Beach Boys and good deal of drinking was replaced by tame performances from the best musicians the armed services had to offer...
...student involved in the window-breakingsaid he and his three companions decided not tocome forward to University officials about theiractions for fear of being seen as racists."Because of Dartmouth and Howard Beach it seemedwe were really going to take a hosing for this.Better to let it blow over, which it did," thestudent involved in breaking the window said...
...independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...
...incorporated, and, shortly after, racial segregation became a fact of real estate development. Blacks found themselves on the other side of Flagler's track with their backs to the Everglades; they would not return to the shoreline until 1945, when the municipality granted them use of a small beach accessible by boat. Despite their significant numbers (about 20% of the city's population of 372,000, compared with upwards of 60% for Hispanics), Miami's blacks get a small part in these books about < urban razzle. The unfortunate exception is the Liberty City riot of 1980, when white-owned stores...