Word: junctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon we fished the junction of the Ammonoosic and the Gale, an area pretty well defined by a pair of bridges, Again, the water looked good, but so early in the season nothing much was happening. The people I was with managed to lose every lure they had (something of a feat), and proceded to lie in the sun, buy some beer and relax. The air warmed up in the afternoon, though the water stayed cold. All in all it made a pretty relaxing first fishing trip of the year...
...fighting a touch of tuberculosis when producer Walter Wanger told the two scriptwriters to report to the scene for atmosphere. Despite protests, Fitzgerald was herded on a plane from California to New York, and as his alcoholism got the better of him, he boarded a train to White River Junction with much distaste. By the time Fitzgerald arrived, he was sick, drunk and sleepless. And during the next few days Dartmouth College "honored" Fitzgerald by holding a seminar in which the professors criticized the script in progress. He left offended, and later attended a party at Alpha Delta at which...
...government is shielding them f from economic reality with the same paternalistic censorship that it applies to books and films. Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) more realistically plans to cushion the crisis by jacking up its own prices for bunkering fuel. The island nation sits at a critical junction of shipping lanes and refuels many passing vessels...
...weeks ago, eight North Vietnamese tanks routed ARVN (government) troops guarding the highway junction of Dak Song, two miles from the Cambodian frontier. Since then the province has been cut off from the rest of the country except by air. Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital. Some 4,000 North Vietnamese are entrenched near by at Bu Prang, an advance outpost lost by the South Vietnamese at a cost of 150 killed and missing...
...word of the cease-fire had come through earlier in the day. Tallo was ordered back east to take a junction that would help block a retreat of the Egyptian army across the canal. "We should go on and teach them a lesson once and for all," Tallo insisted. "They can't go on starting wars whenever they choose and stop them when they want. We should finish the job and gain quiet for a generation...