Word: lagoons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Penney who, having his sleep disturbed on his palatial Florida estate by a well-liquored cacophony from across the lagoon, had the notorious Al Capone tossed in the clink for disorderly conduct, which, in its legalistic twists & turns led ultimately to the conviction of Capone on a federal tax charge...
From Corpus Christi to the Mexican border, the slender, 119-mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami, chewed their way towards each other through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link...
...none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
...could not make them fully understand why Bikini was not a suitable home any more. But the Navy could take them somewhere else. The native leaders looked over several other islands and finally chose a mile-long speck called Kili, 500 miles from their original home. There was no lagoon but there was plenty of water, much breadfruit and many coconuts, more than on Rongerik, more even than on loved and unforgotten Bikini. Last week the little band of atomic exiles, now numbering 181, were settled on Kili, making the best of things and hoping never to have to move...
...immense buried treasure is being recovered from the lagoon of the island of Bora Bora where the U.S. had a base during World War II. The treasure consists of empty Coca-Cola bottles dumped by Army and Navy personnel during the years 1942-45. The natives have dived up more than 30,000 to date, which they sell to soft-drink emporiums in Papeete at 3 francs per bottle...