Word: riverbank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian border. Two 75-mm. cannon and a B40 rocket scored direct hits on the vessel's superstructure. Two tankers on Lo's stern caught 14 rockets. When Lo looked back, he saw a smaller cargo vessel, the 1,500-ton Ally, burning and beached on the riverbank. In all, ten of the 18 vessels in the original convoy decided to turn back to An Long...
...next couple of weeks without a big downpour." That hope seemed dashed early last weekend as rains began to pelt parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went out for the entire state of Mississippi, but the rains mercifully let up, the warnings were canceled and riverbank residents returned to their normal activities-which include watching the river. As one Mississippian said, "Dat Ole Man sure ain't behavin' good-he's cutting...
...Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans-was the solution. The sheer convenience of watercolor-and its appeal to amateur and professional alike-was neatly expressed by Paul Sandby's tranquil view of Rosslyn Castle, North Berwick, with an aristocratic-looking lady on the riverbank painting with the aid of a camera lucida...
Barge Man Toward sundown, people began drifting down to the riverbank. A few kids impatiently paddled their toes in the water. A young husband shushed a baby on his shoulder. On the far shore a car pulled up, waited, drove away; the ferry was not running tonight. Then, from the barge floating a few feet out in the rippling Ohio River, the music danced deliciously across the water. This was the big day of the year in Ravenswood, W. Va. (pop. 4,500), and almost everybody was on hand to enjoy...
...ferry is not leaving on time because a truck has gotten stuck in the mud of the riverbank after driving half-way off. We wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . while no one does anything to budge the truck so the ferry can leave. If it doesn't leave pretty soon, we will miss the plane to Vientiane, and who knows when there will be another one to get us back to "civilization?" Doesn't anyone realize the urgency of the situation...