Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweltering Cairo faded into the distance, a troupe of clowns on the old river boat began cavorting on the top deck before the packed crowds of Egyptians escaping the city. Below decks in the 200-ton Dandara were hundreds more on holiday-government agricultural experts and their families, who had chartered the boat for the day, bound for the picnic grounds at the Nile Delta Barrage...
Safety was a mere six yards away, and scores made it, swimming. But others were trapped inside the boat or in the river, and were drowned. Rushing to the scene, President Gamal Abdel Nasser joined the wailing crowd on shore, as frogmen labored to extricate trapped bodies...
Fish & Fiddle. Christopher Columbus Smith was born in 1861 in the treetopped village (pop. 1,200) of Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
Chris's closest companion was his older brother Hank, who regularly got one haircut a year (from his mother), boasted that he never changed his winter underwear in summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high school; instead, he shoved off as a deckhand on the steamer Arundel, worked summers on the lake boats. But as vacationing sportsmen came to Algonac, Hank and Chris began building small boats for rent. Hank and he would search the woods for a walnut...
...describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...