Word: hours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down the number of intoxicated students. In the past two years riots have occurred at other colleges when drinkers have felt that their liquor supply was threatened. At one college even the change from daylight-saving to standard time resulted in a noisy disturbance, because bars were closing one hour earlier. What has changed is that today many colleges are publicly discussing and beginning to address the problem...
...beachfront was blurry, as it should have been at 6 a.m. My contact lenses were dry and flat, but thank goodness my father's vision was clear--he had already been navigating the highway for an hour-and-a-half from Houston down to the less-than-picturesque "beach" of Freeport, Texas...
...fished the shoreline's natural gutters where the fish ran on their breakfast binge. The first hour went by without a nibble. Then I spotted something in the water...
...fished until about 10:15 a.m. At about 10:10, the wheels fell off. Heeding a warning from an hour earlier about a shark in the area, the few wading fisherman, including my father, were trying to keep their stringers of fish out of the water. As I turned around to begin walking in toward shore, my father made his last few casts. Then, WHAP! A giant slapping sound and a lightning-like splash of water shattered our serene scene...
...make matters worse, it took the Coast Guard nearly an hour once they arrived to throw over a line to the Escort. And once the line was received at around 3 a.m., the long journey back to harbor still lay ahead...