Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait. His points: Why guarantee the Chinese Reds against attack from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa? Eisenhower weighed the risks, took the decision, forced Red China to deploy hundreds of thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed by congressional resolution-to defend Formosa by force, but wanted the U.S. to declare its specific intent to defend the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu as well. The President, sensing Britain's opposition...
...island villagers of North Haven seen such a fine schoolteacher and all-round nice fellow as lovable, affable Martin Godgart. A happy, hulking (6 ft., 250 lb.), multichinned chap with a Harvard accent, Godgart turned up last September on the tiny Penobscot Bay island off the coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed a Sea Scout troop, ran Sunday school...
...Murphy said later, a "cancer patient" was transferred from an ambulance to the plane. It was the same night that Galíndez vanished. Early the next morning N 68100 put down in Florida at the Lantana airport for refueling, then buzzed straight for Monte Cristi on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic...
...Scientists have no idea, are baffled by the disappearance of the huge schools that periodically visited the New England coast. Some think that environmental changes have affected their ability to reproduce there...
...letdown. Author Du Maurier stuffs her novel with eccentric servants, eavesdroppers, potential murders, apparent suicides, strangely worded wills. For a romantic setting there is the 17th century chateau of St. Gilles, not unlike Daphne Du Maurier's own sprawling, 70-room Menabilly House on the Cornish coast, great and gloomy original for Rebecca's legendary Manderley. No reasonable Doppelgänger could wish for an eerier home-away-from-home...