Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street positions, searching houses and hauling out snipers. By late afternoon, the paratroopers were four to six blocks deep in the rebel zone, squeezing Caamaño's remaining men into an area barely one mile square. The U.S. troops now stood on the last hill before the ocean, looking down into the shattered rebel stronghold. After two days, the shooting gradually began to taper off. Four U.S. paratroopers were dead, another 39 wounded, along with five Brazilians...
...have been snapped up this year, with the season just under way. Over 300 surfers were counted in the water recently at Gilgo Beach on Long Island's South Shore, and 900 more were catching their breath on the sand. George Pittman, a surfboard dealer in Ocean City, Md., reports happily: "The fanny-dippers [ordinary bathers] are in the big majority now, but in the future the situation may be reversed...
Warmer Water. The Atlantic being a smaller ocean than the Pacific, its waves are generally smaller and less consistent. Last month, when 4,000 spectators gathered in Narragansett for the New England championships, the sea was so still a Coast Guard cutter had to ply back and forth to make it a contest. But Eastern addicts are still getting their surf legs and seem quite content with the three-and four-footers found along most of the coast. A few weekends ago, when the rollers at Narragansett rose to California size (six feet), not a surfer braved the waves. Explained...
...Norair division and turned over to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a series of test flights. M2-F2 is a wingless glider, called the Manned Lifting Body Research Vehicle, designed to be used eventually to ferry astronauts back from space to a dry landing rather than an ocean dunking...
...water-higher than any marlin. Enraged by the hook, makos have been known to yank luckless fishermen overboard or jump straight into a boat, tear the place apart, then leap back into the water to fight for another two hours. Their killer instinct lingers even after death. At Ocean City, Md., not long ago, a tourist walked past the corpse of a mako lying on the dock, carelessly brushing its head with his foot. Ka-chung! With a sudden muscle spasm, the dead mako sank its fangs into the passerby...