Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psyche. Skelton is a modern Thoreau. A refugee from prolonged drug miasmas and the turbulence of modern society, Skelton has retreated to his hometown to slow down his pace of life and get back to the core of his being, allowing just the essential eccentricities. His Walden is the ocean surrounding Key West...
...murderess who goes through a husband and a lover before the police catch up with her. And, once he becomes attached to her, Fanny also dies. Finally convinced that he will certainly die if he stays any longer, Christian leaves the city, heading back across the ocean...
...made a thorough study of the kind of desert war that would have to be fought against Israel and trained the army carefully for it. That meant, for one thing, that the goal was not to occupy territory but to destroy the enemy forces. "A desert is like an ocean," an Egyptian officer told Wynn. "A navy doesn't try to occupy a big segment of the ocean; it tries to destroy the enemy fleet. The desert is a paradise for a tactical commander but hell for a logistics officer...
...only other time you hear that much activity at night is when the reservists fly in," said Bob James, who owns a gas station near the end of the runway. As he spoke, KC-135 tanker jets labored off the runway, then banked right toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean. During the day, half a dozen blue-and-white Boeing 747s had shuttled in and out of the base...
...signals Donleavy's intent) is a penniless, Bronx-born expatriate who returns to New York from Europe where he has been highly schooled and polished. The inadvisability of his return is made quite evident at the beginning when his wife, a delicate hot-house beauty, dies during the ocean crossing. The implication is that rare and fine things do not travel well, especially to New York...