Word: reefed
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...some fateful miscalculation, the U.S.-owned oil tanker Torrey Canyon, en route from Kuwait to Wales, had run aground and begun to break up on a reef 18 miles off the southwest tip of Britain; part of its 118,000 tons of crude oil began leaking into the sea. Like great oozy creatures from 20,000 leagues under, oil slicks more than 20 miles long were soon slinking toward southwest Britain's golden holiday beaches, which draw $300 million a year from tourists...
...husband of Madame X helpfully tried to clear up the puzzle by announcing at his home in Rio de Janeiro that the lady, German-born Erika Mittfeld, 28, would soon marry the Governor, who was divorced last March. Reporters caught up with the couple at the Ocean Reef Club on Key Largo, where they were spending a few days, but the Governor blandly came out with the classic "We're just friends-that...
Wild Scramble. Another product, Reef, attacks the problem with an equally ridiculous approach. The setting is a party or a convivial cruise. The apéritif is a bottle of Reef. All the gang raise their frosty champagne glasses in a mouthwash toast as the announcer cheers, "So here's to breath [clink!] that's really clean...
...Markets. Australia's awakening to its position in Asia was slow. Most Aussies tended to be more concerned with the Davis Cup than with diplomacy. "Overseas" was that vague, vast stretch of land beyond the Great Barrier Reef, and Britain took care...
...academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...