Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yenisel River originates in the Tannu Ola Mountains of western Mongolia and runs approximately 2800 miles until reaching its point of outflow into the Arctic Ocean...
...Feds boast more than 100 boats, but the fastest Coast Guard launch will travel only 28 m.p.h. The smugglers' sleek ocean racers, stripped of galleys and bunks for greater capacity, can do 50 m.p.h. fully loaded. "We are outmanned and outrun," says Coast Guard Commander John Ikens. "They have more money than...
...slope that leads to the precipice, when the wind stopped. Caught in a rare, freakish downdraft, the kite plummeted. When he saw he would be unable to land he shifted his weight and thrust at the control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned the kite and his body to the rock...
...found a more suitable victim. Hull, Massachusetts consists of four drumlins--glacial hills--connected by seven miles of low-lying land. The town's width varies between a half mile and ten yards, and once the high tide had flowed over the seawalls, it rolled right across to the ocean on the other side of the town...
...mile-per-hour winds and nine feet of flood waters destroyed about 100 homes and well over 200 cars; the ocean flooded another 1000 homes and the army evacuated 3000 people, housing them temporarily in the town's schools. Pieces of the concrete seawall, weighing hundreds of pounds, floated through the streets as though they were styrofoam surfboards. Emergency crews erected a 15-foot floodwall along the beach in case a second storm which weather forecasters predicted would come a few days after the first, hit the town. However, it seems unlikely that dirt would have succeeded where tons...