Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started peacefully with a scenic late winter snowfall. Maryland got up to 24 in., northern Virginia 22, Pennsylvania 19. But then a rare combination of three pressure areas formed a funnel down which winds spilled off the turbulent Atlantic Ocean at ever-increasing speed to strike the U.S. East Coast. Reinforcing the high tides of the new moon, 84-m.p.h. gusts generated waves 25 ft. high. For two days the water rolled over coastal barriers from Connecticut to North Carolina. When it receded, damage was estimated at $300 million...
...Atlantic City's exposed Steel Pier was partially swept away, stranding the former "Miss America" ballroom. Hundreds of homes were ruined on Long Beach Island, which was sliced into five islets by the waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some 2,000 people evacuated towns between Atlantic City and Cape May. A 35-room wing of the million-dollar Atlantic Sands Motel was shattered in Rehoboth Beach, Del., just part of that resort city's $50 million damage. Helicopters laboriously carried 800 residents...
...progress that the Soviet Union had made in its 50 explosions last fall, the U.S. was in danger of losing the nuclear superiority that is the free world's broad shield. The U.S. would therefore resume atmospheric nuclear testing from British-controlled Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean in late April -unless the Russians agreed in the intervening weeks to test ban that included a workable inspection system...
...Starbird soon found that long disuse and the corrosion of the salt-laden ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
...boot camp, sleeping in shifts. When fatigue gave way to restlessness, they turned to poker (played for matchsticks, since the Navy officially bans gambling). But this palled after a week, conversation was exhausted-and morale sagged. The scene was reminiscent of wartime movies in which submariners sat trapped at ocean's bottom, forlornly waiting for death or a chance to escape. Some recruits slumped at card tables, others yawned and cradled their heads in their arms. Finally, the more imaginative raised spirits by enacting skits of recruit life or by beating out the thumping rhythms of bongo numbers...