Word: lagoons
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...watercoolers and evaporators, over the food, coffee, soap bars and even the cockroaches of the storerooms. They sang particularly loud over the tarry caulking of the deck planks and spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers...
...ships as still too difficult or too expensive to decontaminate. The carrier Independence is still afloat at San Francisco, but is so "hot" that it can be used only as a laboratory for decontamination training. Of the original 76 ships (including two barges) that rode at anchor in Bikini Lagoon, only two submarines, five transports and two LCIs are afloat and declared to be completely safe...
Water-skiing entails little expense and far fewer fractures than its snowy sister sport. All you need is a speedboat, a quiet lagoon, several hundred feet of light rope, and, above all, a life preserver to keep you afloat...
...logical choice. Eniwetok is big enough (approximately 450 square miles of islets and lagoon) for more extensive experiments than the Bikini tests. It is so situated that prevailing winds will carry radioactive particles harmlessly out over open seas. Construction of houses, utilities, protective shelters and observation posts is already under...
...bears up because her father presumptive, who has meanwhile come back to town, takes an interest in her and promises to send her to college. But when her beau elopes with a belle of established parentage, the Hagen girl jumps in the local lagoon. The plot hauls her out but sends the picture to the bottom like a stone...