Word: inland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland railroad tracks--while perhaps not elegantly presented--are still awesome. To look for some deep meaning in a book like this seems absurd; what it presents is not a search for truth, but a portrayal of the more basic pursuit of survival...
...aristocrats of fishdom. The Gulf Coast's pearly shrimp, eaten raw or smothered in the fiery remoulade sauce of a New Orleans restaurant, are as memorable as Proustian madeleines. No other cuisine in the world has so amply shared or sherried a dish like Southern crawfish bisque. Inland, Southern hams and bacons are unrivaled in the Western world...
...coast of northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County, wending 24½ miles up hill and down dale, over ten public roads (including Highway 101) and through dozens of farms, to finish inland near Petaluma, Calif. For an artwork, it has consumed staggering amounts of time, manpower and materials: 300 students, 2,050 posts, 165,000 yds. of material, miles of wire and hundreds of thousands of hooks...
Standing-room-only crowds are expected throughout the rivers, lakes, and brooks of the Bay State; tickets for this event have been sold out since the first freezing of the inland waterways last winter...
...billion). It consists of two giant reactors that will produce 2.2 million kilowatts of electricity. One reactor is nearly ready to go into operation; the other will be finished in August 1977. When construction started in 1968, PG&E knew all about the San Andreas fault, 45 miles inland, and the Rinconada fault, some 20 miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering 6.75 on the Richter scale.* The concrete foundations are 14 ft. thick, for example, and a cross section of the mammoth dome over each reactor would show 3½ ft. of concrete...