Word: corals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremonial post, virtually ignored by the Bishop government, suddenly became a temporary center of power. The residents heeded his call to go back to their jobs, even though many found little to do there. In St. George's Harbor, where colorful fishing boats bobbed in the coral-studded water, customs inspectors appeared for duty in a nearly empty storeroom. Said Haddon Latouche, one of the inspectors: "In the past, we saw crates and shipments, but we couldn't inspect them. There was always a superior authority from the party present." Some $475,000 worth of emergency food...
...airport so that visitors will be able to reach the island directly from North America and Europe. Enjoy the magnificent view where the Atlantic joins the Caribbean. On one side you will see a sparkling slate-black beach of volcanic sand and on the other, of brilliantly white coral sand...
...haunting grounds range from discos and hotel ballrooms to private mansions and clubs, and museums in San Francisco, Coral Gables and Miami. Among the happenings...
...earnest voice on the telephone described the offer as a sure thing. By sending $8,784 to the U.S. Oil and Gas Corp. in Coral Gables, Fla., the customer would be guaranteed-in writing-to win a lease worth $25,000 for the oil and gas rights on a parcel of U.S. Government land. Between September 1982 and June 1983, some 66,000 people drew down savings and took out loans to send the company money...
This revelation, added to postwar years of teaching, produced Lord of the Flies (1954), a taut parable about a group of English schoolboys who are deposited for safekeeping on a coral island while their elders wage nuclear war. Slowly but inexorably, they revert to savagery. "The theme," Golding explained, "is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." The book sold modestly in both England and the U.S. (2,383 copies), but a paperback reprint issued in 1959 hit pay dirt. It became the desired and then the required reading for millions...