Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warsaw Concerto, Nutcracker Suite), as well as his own compositions (Snowfall), swung high in the big-band era from 1939 to 1947, thereafter maintained a respectable success at college proms and the few remaining big-time dance halls, such as Manhattan's Roseland, Atlantic City's Steel Pier; of a heart attack; in Caldwell...
Tied up alongside a pier on the Wilmington river front, the 728-ft. battle ship U.S.S. North Carolina by day looks like just another battleship saved from the scrap heap to serve as a war memorial. But at night she comes alive...
...frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots as he screamed into the Cat Cay checkpoint, with Holocaust smack on his stern. Trying to beat 007 to the checkpoint at Cat Cay pier, Lewis lost his bearings, ran Holocaust onto a sand bar and out of the race. By that point, Dick Bertram was two miles back, waging a mighty fight against smooth water...
...part of their mission. The failure of some small part kept them below the level of total perfection that is the absolute imperative of space. But nothing at all went wrong with last week's Saturn, which left its pad as routinely as an ocean liner leaving its pier...
...Drums. With this action, the state funeral closed and the private one began. Churchill's body crossed the Thames, once London's great avenue of trade and triumph, under a massed flypast of fighter planes, which dipped to 500 feet in tribute. At Festival pier, the coffin was placed in a private hearse and driven slowly to Waterloo station. There were no more parades or bands or flags or muffled drums. Accompanied by his family, Churchill's body was carried by special train some 60 miles into the heart of Oxfordshire, to rest beside the graves...