Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poetry, essays and autobiography were to roll from her typewriter. Anne Sullivan died in 1936 and Helen went on with Polly Thomson as her companion. Her house burned down and with it the manuscript of her book about Anne. The house was rebuilt, the book rewritten. The travels continued: to Asia, Africa and South America as well as throughout her own country...
...BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:45). The 100th running of the Belmont Stakes, third of the Triple Crown thoroughbred races, live from rebuilt Belmont Race Track, Elmont...
...insulate the Right Bank peace-talk site (and the U.S. delegation) from violence, police cordoned off all major bridges across the Seine. On the other side, students chanting "De Gaulle assassin!" massed and marched. Then, after flickering hopes for a compromise with the government faded, they rebuilt their paving-stone-and-auto barricades. Late at night, the gendarme phalanxes charged-and nearly a square mile of Paris turned into a battlefield. As retreating students hurled Molotov cocktails and set fire to many autos, the explosion of their gasoline tanks mixed with the pop of police tear-gas grenades...
Along the so-called "high energy" beaches, where the water is turbulent and the currents swift, the offshore sand level can rise and fall as much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...Corps of Engineers has found that the most effective way to repair erosion is simply to bring new sand to the beaches-either hauling it in by truck or pumping it up from the ocean floor. Such methods have successfully rebuilt California's Redondo Beach, for example, where 14 years ago the waves were breaking over the sea wall and across the road behind. But these measures are expensive. Atlantic City has invested $9,000,000 over the years on a combination of jetties and pumping devices to keep its tourist industry alive. California spends more than...