Word: riverbank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans for the Kennedy library have already gone far beyond the small, quiet, scholarly haven that Jack Kennedy envisioned in his lifetime. To that project, Harvard in 1963 granted two acres of its Charles Riverbank property. Now there are plans to make the library an institution in the study of contemporary political science, with a big-name, not-necessarily-Harvard director. Some 200 tape-recorded interviews have been conducted with the great and the near great to create an "oral history" of the Kennedy years. So far, about the only holdout is former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who explains...
Then suddenly and, as far as anyone can tell, on their own initiative, 10,000 villagers-all except the sick, the aged and the very young children-turned out for 27 straight days and dug a ten-mile ditch around the elongated village. The moat begins at the riverbank, marches through rice fields and coconut groves, curls around the spurs of two foothills, across a marshy neck of the sea, and returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became...
...leonine wind prowled through the saw grass, rattling the few gaunt thornbushes that dot the banks of the Zambezi River near Kasane. Potbellied kids squatted in the shade of round, white-walled mud huts while their mothers hacked with mattocks in the maize patches. Down at the riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny...
...best one possible; but the best is often bad enough. For those who use the banks of the Charles for recreation or find the area attractive, it is very bad indeed. Although the proposed "extended-portal" structure would preserve Weld Boat House, it would sprawl over much of the riverbank and make reaching the remainder difficult. Yet the alternative--a conventional underpass bisecting the Boat House and taking even more land--is worse. And since it might cost $900,000 less to build, the conventional underpass may have the better chance of being approved by the Metropolitan District Commission...
...coast, Americans brave torrential downpours, smoggy traffic jams, cement seats, grass stains and mosquitoes to get within the sound of music. They seek it out in bosky glens and canopied pavilions, up on mountaintops and down in gulches, in abandoned cow pastures and deserted mining towns, on a riverbank beside a barge and in the middle of a city...