Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coastsweep, part of an 8-year-old nationwide celebration known as Coast Weeks, kicked off at Revere Beach. About 200 people collected 4 tons of garbage -- and still they couldn't say their work was through...
...44th voyage carrying passengers and gold from Panama to New York, the S.S. Central America ran into a killer hurricane and sank in 8,000 ft. of water 200 miles off the South Carolina coast. On board were an estimated 77,000 ounces of gold bullion worth at least $28 million today. Last week a salvage syndicate that located the wreck two years ago began recovering what engineer Thomas Thompson, 37, said was "like the classic sunken treasures you read about as a kid. It is like a garden of gold growing from the bottom and hanging from beams...
...mayor claimed that the Miss America Pageant was a "cultural event." (True, a contestant in last week's pageant -- the 63rd -- did sing an aria from Die Fledermaus, but the event is still more about swimwear than opera.) During the Prohibition era, it was the East Coast Babylon for bootlegging, brothels and betting, but in 1946 Atlantic City tried to persuade the United Nations to settle there, citing its "historically noncontroversial background." In the late '50s the Chamber of Commerce campaigned to make local newspapers and radio stations refer to cloudy conditions at the resort as "partly sunny...
...where it was. It was originally thought to be the Nazi-threatened Berlin of the 1920s, but the libretto that he wrote for Kurt Weill's most ambitious opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), seems to be set on a wildly imaginary Florida Gold Coast. But to Jonathan Miller, the gifted British director who was commissioned to stage a new Mahagonny at the enterprising, young Los Angeles Music Center Opera, there could be only one locale. "Hollywood," he said before last week's opening night, "seemed to be a living metaphor...
...omni-sweep, a spray nozzle at the end of a 100- ft.-long mechanical arm, allowed workers to hose steep shorelines that were otherwise inaccessible. High-temperature, high-pressure rinses proved moderately effective in scouring oil-fouled rocky beaches, but they killed intertidal creatures such as barnacles and snails. Coast Guard Captain David Zawadzki compares the process with chemotherapy...