Word: railed
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...main focus of the vacation onslaught has been that 160-mile strip of overbuilt beach front in the south of France, the Côte d'Azur. Local rail terminals are overflowing as additional sun worshipers pour into Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
...days later, at 7 a.m., she appeared on an eleventh-floor balcony of the hotel with the children: Elizabeth, 15, Rachel, 14, Joshua, 10, Deborah, 9, Joseph, 8, David, 6, and Rebecca, 5. The three older children clambered up a pile of folded chairs and leaped over the railing. Then Rachel began throwing the younger children over the rail, one by one. "No, stop!" shouted onlookers on the ground. But there was no response from the balcony. Said bystander Pat Eyre: "One child grabbed on to the railing and fought a little bit, but she pulled him loose and threw...
...used as a staging base by 18th century New England whaling men (Walvis means whale in Afrikaans). The area was settled by British pioneers from Cape Town in 1843 and subsequently annexed by Britain; since 1910 it has been governed by South Africa. The community that developed after rail lines were laid in 1915 occupies a narrow space, hemmed in by the gray-flecked ocean and the vast Namib desert...
...examination before it can win a new route, and once that route is granted, must provide satisfactory service or face CAB sanctions. Under the White House plan, the airlines would be free to start or stop service wherever they liked. Some small communities that have already lost their rail service would probably be deserted as well by the airlines, which would dump marginal and money-losing routes. The biggest lines would have an advantage over smaller ones because they could concentrate their vast fleets on the most lucrative markets. They could also use their financial muscle to set rates...
...region of England. There, in a guarded room of the maternity section of Oldham and District General Hospital, Lesley Brown, 30, a resident of Bristol, was being tended in her final month of pregnancy. For nine years she and her husband Gilbert John, 38, a van driver for British Rail, had futilely tried to have a child. Now, finally, the Browns were on the verge of achieving their hearts' desire?in a most spectacular manner. Early in August, she is due to give birth by natural means to a child that her doctors say was conceived not in her body...