Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western Hemisphere, which will require shipping everything from scientists to cherry pickers across 4,400 miles of ocean, as well as digging a deep-water port near Cayenne? De Gaulle's spacemen explain that Guiana, being near the Equator, offers scientific advantages-such as facilitating polar as well as equatorial orbits and achieving greater orbital speed from the earth's rotation...
...belongings and fled for high ground. Elsewhere in the state, people were drowned as their cars washed over fallen bridges or were electrocuted by torn power lines. At Reedsport, a railroad bridge across the Umpqua River was opened for a three-story house which floated out into the Pacific Ocean -the fourth house to float by. In Idaho, snow slides and rising water cut off village after village in the southern part of the state, necessitating rescue work by helicopter. In Central Idaho, a bulldozer operator, pushing toward ten stranded cars containing 50 people, died when a snowslide swept...
...face but will keep some troops nearby. "To promote the eventual negotiation," he wrote last June, it should be made clear "that it is not our intention to withdraw and wash our hands. It is no less essential to make military dispositions in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, which make it clear that when our troops withdraw from the mainland, the American presence will remain...
...Alone in the sea at night, I am always afraid," one veteran diver confesses. The audience shares his fear and fascination, and occasionally even his lethargy becomes swimmingly real. It is hypnotic and hilarious to watch a school of scallops, threatened by a starfish, go snapping across the ocean bottom like a herd of stampeding dentures. The film has its faults: it grows repetitious and tries to provide variety with music full of scubadoo cuteness. Thus, by the time the saucer plunges down for a climactic survey of the queer fish and mating crabs found...
...command to be still and motionless and have plunged deep into politics. While most continue their usual duties of meditating, reading the scriptures, teaching and begging, more and more of them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots, and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy to Tonkin Bay, bonzes are causing political waves whose final effect even they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western?and the Communist?role in the fate of Asia...