Word: florida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Timothy Pickering, a Massachusetts Federalist and former Secretary of State, who in 1810 divulged on the Senate floor a carefully guarded secret message from France's Foreign Minister Talleyrand, weakening the U.S. case in the dispute over ownership of western Florida...
...Seconded Florida's James Haley: "Load a boat full of them and take them 500 miles out into the ocean and handcuff them, chain the anchor around their necks and throw them overboard...
...June 19, 1968 the asteroid Icarus, which is nearly a mile in diameter, will crash into the mid-Atlantic, 2,000 miles east of Florida. Its impact - the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb blast - will splash out some 1,000 cubic miles of sea water and form a crater 15 miles across in the ocean floor. Tidal waves 100 ft. high will sweep across coastal cities on both sides of the ocean, and earthquakes 100 times worse than any ever recorded will be felt all over the world. Clearly, Icarus must be stopped. No expense will be spared...
...concerned, we're roughing it now," said Daniel Hawley, lounging with his wife in front of their self-contained, $13,000 Cortez bus camper, while their three children splashed in the swimming pool at Florida's Fiesta Key Resort. Near by, Joseph Haigh and his wife took the sun beside their Dodge camper, a 27-ft.-long bus that, when fully equipped with stainless-steel galley, stall shower, toilet and bunks for six, can cost more than $16,000. "We're land cruisers now," says Haigh, who gave up a lifetime of boating after...
...FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY...