Word: onslow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beach. After the aerial show, the President lunched aboard the big carrier, then took to his whirlybird once more, landing on Onslow Beach, below the Outer Banks, where he was joined by the Shah of Iran. Through the afternoon, the VIPs observed a well-rehearsed attack on the beach by five battalions of helicopters and seaborne marines, equipped with napalm bombs, heavy artillery, and Ontos (the latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile...
...chemistry, then to classical Greek and psychology, and eventually the ministry of the Church of England. He was curate first in Barnet, a London working class district and later in a South England middle class area, Eastbourne. When he next went as vicar to St. Paul's Church, Onslow Square, London, he at first found only 25 people in the parish and faced demolition of the church; now after seven years 500 pack the services each Sunday. 90 per cent of his parishioners are under...