Word: sandspit
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...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab...Its colors lost their infernal intensity, paled to harmless-looking but deadly pastels. April...
...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab ... Its colors lost their infernal intensity, paled to harmless-looking but deadly pastels. Bruneval, France April 14, 1947 Dignitaries and former Resistance leaders last week plodded across muddy fields to the remote hamlet of Bruneval in Normandy. There, at a ceremony to honor a British commando raid, Charles de Gaulle ... opened a campaign to recapture power...
...hydride (or equivalent) explosions that had been set off-by the Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear of any other scientific discovery...
...entertainment (young people playing good and brave and true Indians, loutish colonists, supercilious monarchs), they exist, in the hope of snagging tourists, in spots that afford a vista. The oldest of these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand could tell you), who was saying to the cast during their muggy dress rehearsal...
When the sailing ships Porpoise and Cato foundered off eastern Australia one night in August 1803, Explorer Matthew Flinders led the 94 survivors to safety on a nearby sandspit, then sailed and rowed a small cutter 729 miles to Sydney for help. While Flinders is an Australian national hero-the first man to circumnavigate the continent-the theory persisted that his navigating was off when he recorded the wreckage at latitude 22° 11' south, longitude 155° 13' east. But that spot is precisely where an Australian underwater photographer named Ben Cropp last week, 162 years later...