Word: inland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 100,000 people fled inland to avoid Opal, although many waited too long. Lorraine Brown, a bartender and 22-year resident of Pensacola Beach, had intended to stay close by. When she was finally persuaded to leave, she found herself trapped in the massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some...
...their six-year-old daughter Taylor. He allows no visitors from the press there, and works hard to play down the trappings of celebrity. "People say, 'How do you do it?' I say, 'Stay away from show business,'" Crichton said earlier this month. He was driving to lunch, headed inland from the coast in one of those heavy-browed Ford things that take a lot of fossil fuel to slake. A couple of years ago, he was peeved that a Vanity Fair article said he drove a tonier, more expensive Land Rover. Then, he had marched this interviewer...
...citizens hoped, because it made a poor target for such an attack. Situated on a broad alluvial delta, surrounded on three sides by low mountains, Hiroshima was threaded by seven tributaries of the Ota River--watery obstacles to the spread of fires--emptying into Hiroshima Bay on the Inland Sea. On this Monday morning, some 8,900 schoolchildren had been ordered to increase Hiroshima's advantage by helping clean and widen streets...
...rescue force won't move inland to Bosnia until the peacekeepers have assembled at a handful of major points. "We don't want to send 90 of our guys out to rescue two or three peacekeepers," a NATO planner says. The allies most probably would employ a "leapfrogging" withdrawal strategy, in which highly mobile nato units would hop from peak to peak, guarding the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers winding along roads in the valleys below. They will head west for Adriatic ports or east to Belgrade, assuming Serbia approves. While the allies want to bring tanks and other vehicles...
...during her extended family's annual June sojourn at the Delaware shore, Delia takes a walk down the beach and veers right toward their rented cottage, where she hitches a ride with the roof repairman. Some time later, she gets out at a small inland town and sets about buying some clothes to substitute for her swim togs. After that, she must find food and a place to sleep. Larger questions, such as what on earth she thinks she is doing, are submerged in the search for necessities...