Word: driftwood
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...force of the waves. Harry Cook, a Texas shrimper, is considering wire mesh and old tires to keep the bay waters from chewing away any more of his bluffs, which he is losing at the rate of 10 ft. yearly. On Long Island, beach residents shore up dunes with driftwood and old tires. And in Carlsbad, Calif., the community has come up with a number of ideas, from planting plastic kelp to laying a sausage-like tube along the beach in order to trap sand normally washed away during high tide...
...weather began to clear, rescue teams managed at last to take to the waters and pick up survivors. At least 4,000 men, women and children were saved; many of them had clung to floating bamboo rooftops or pieces of driftwood. One 14-year-old girl clutched a piece of timber for 18 hours before she was pulled to safety. A man was said to have held on to his wooden bed for two days before a vessel found...
...manufacturing company, has taken a leave from his job as chief of laboratory testing at Hunter Marine of Alachua, Fla. Tom Lindholm, 57, of Hidden Hills, Calif., has left his law practice in the hands of his partner and son to take the helm of his 41-ft. sloop Driftwood. Dan Byrne, 53, of Santa Monica, Calif., is relying on his wife Patricia to provide shore support; she intends to meet him and his 40-ft. Fantasy in every port...
...light swivels its beam around lonely Alaska, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle and barely 1,400 miles from the North Pole. Five hundred yards to the north, an iceberg, bleached turquoise by the cold and shaped like a baby's cradle, rocks along. There is no driftwood or trash in the freezing Beaufort Sea. Nature all but forbade man to sail in this place, and Captain Walt Kardonsky knows...
...McGovern went Frank Church, John Culver '54, and Birch Bayh. Here in Massachusetts, the people overwhelmingly approved a huge reduction in local taxes, despite the warnings of city and town officials that the cuts would cripple local schools, reduce the number of cops on the beat, and make driftwood of the state's poor who depend most heavily on public help...