Word: marinas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ghighi flew up in the private plane of George Skakel, brother-in-law of Bobby Kennedy. He returned in the evening, stopped at his Fifth Avenue apartment to dress for a dinner party. Charlene complained of a toothache, so Ghighi went by himself. Charlene and her stepdaughter Marina, 14-Ghighi's daughter by his second wife-settled down to watch the Academy Awards show on a television set in Charlene's bedroom...
...Leave-Taking. Earlier that evening, Charlene had sent Marina out to the corner drugstore to get a new bottle of sleeping pills which her physician had prescribed. As the program began, Charlene rose from her bed, went to the bathroom. She returned to lie down on the bed while Marina sat near by. The youngster watched the show to the end, saw Gregory Peck, looking just like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, make a touching little acceptance speech. When Marina looked at her stepmother, she realized that something was wrong. But it was too late. Charlene had swallowed...
...blighted waterfront district along the Ohio River only a few blocks from downtown, approved a $16,600,000 bond issue to clean up 128.5 acres of dank and decaying buildings. In their place will go a convention hall, five 30-story luxury apartment buildings, a park, a pool, a marina and motel-boatel catering both to passing motorists and yachtsmen...
Battle lines shifted crazily. A British commando received a message from headquarters: "You must retake Marina Beach." He wired back: "This is impossible. I've never lost it." In the dark, German Mark IV tanks were confused with U.S.-made Shermans. "D'you know,'' a British soldier muttered, "I actually peed against one of those tanks, thinking it was British. Blimey...
...Marina City has its roots in a complex of lower, earthbound buildings-a theater, a restaurant, two dozen shops, a block-long office building, a bowling alley, and a marina for 700 private boats. The first 20 floors of each tower will be given over to spirals of garage space; rising above will be apartments and penthouses to house 896 families. With all its recreational and shopping features nestled conveniently at its base, it is a microcosm of a city and tenants can work, relax and shop without going off the reservation...