Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unexploded ordnance, 127 pontoon-bridge sections, 16 trucks, eight tanks, 104 small boats and barges, ten large sunken wrecks and 15 airplanes, not to mention oil drums, anchors, beer cans and one old toilet. Some 686,000 mines and other explosives were removed from both banks. In addition, the causeway built by the Israelis to supply their bridgehead on the west bank during the 1973 war had to be pulled away. The Egyptians spent a total of $288 million on the clearing effort, the Americans another $20 million...
With a barrage of bottles, a slice of pizza and a cup of beer, the Crimson sports cube is pleased to present the first "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" quiz, questions and answers about that ice palace and hardwood haven on Causeway Street, the one and only Boston Garden...
Last week the remaining units of Israel's invasion force withdrew from the West Bank of the Suez Canal. Emblazoned with signs saying GOODBYE AFRICA, HELLO TEL AVIV, tanks, halftracks and packed buses rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...
...which is an accurate enough synopsis of Evening. The setting is Inishnamona, a peninsula that becomes an island when its residents blow up the causeway to the mainland in a short sighted gesture of independence that ends by cutting off the vital tourist trade...
...catch the first cab I see; it is the one that nearly hit me coming our of the Garden onto Causeway St. The cab driver is a trifle taken back, but once he knows where I've come from, he warms up considerably. "What about that Jagger fella? Y'know I usta get sing in a band, a ways back. Usta get laid twenty times a night." The proprietors of the flowers shop are helpful. Particularly when it becomes apparent that six or eight dozen flowers wouldn't be nearly enough. I decide to spend the whole thirty dollars...