Word: riverbank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the bristling Jordan River line, Israelis thwarted a planned fedayeen commando strike by landing the "first punch. A burst of Jordanian shells fired at riverbank settlements on the eve of the anniversary drew a ferocious artillery and air bombardment riposte from the Israelis...
...week's end they had gained nearly 500 precious yards inside the Citadel, pinning an enemy force of about 350 men to three small strongholds. The most important advance came when low-crouching U.S. Marines swept onto the long south wall overlooking the Perfume riverbank, a position that finally gave the allies sturdy positions on each wall of the Citadel. The Marines celebrated by triumphantly running up the Stars and Stripes in full view of modern Hué, across the river. The death toll was among the most expensive of the war: nearly 450 allied dead, including some...
...station attendant, it sounded like a shotgun volley: "I thought some nuts were dusting ducks under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water," one witness exclaimed. Said another: "The bridge just keeled over, starting slowly on the Ohio side and then folding like a deck of cards to the West Virginia side...
...rush to rid itself of the weight of empire, Britain has often bestowed independence on lands that had no business accepting it. Botswana, for example, is an empty but now sovereign desert, Gambia a wriggle of jungle riverbank, and the Maldives a spatter of coral atolls mostly inhabited by starfish. Few lands, however, have been so ill-prepared to rule themselves as the Federation of South Arabia, which Britain announced last week will become independent by the end of November...
Swinging down from a tree in the lush forest that stood in what is now the Fayum desert region in Egypt, the little creature reached the riverbank and began to drink. Suddenly it was attacked and eaten by a crocodile-like reptile that rose without warning from the water. All that the predator left behind was the victim's head, which sank to the bottom and became embedded in the sand. In New Haven, Conn., last week, some 28 million years after this hypothetical drama, Yale Paleontologist Elwyn Simons displayed the ancient skull and reported that it belonged...