Word: sea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poirier knows about the relatives who still go to the water's edge in Peggy's Cove, where the salvage boats are etched in gray on a soft horizon, and toss flowers into the sea. He says he'll dive through December if necessary...
Coached by Mike O'Connor and Bern Noac, Harvard sailors excelled at Nevin's on Saturday. Junior Christian Taubman, who manned a double-handed boat in the Division A racing, finished fourth overall in the 10-race event. Freshman Margaret Gile, affectionately known as "Sea Bass" by her teammates, finished an impressive eighth place in the Division B race...
...wants to do something really big: he plans to build a 435-ft.-high fluorescent obelisk near the site of the old Alexandria lighthouse in Egypt. This column, a model of which was unveiled last week, will be a little fancier than the one that tumbled into the sea about 600 years ago. It will be made of concrete covered in mirrored glass, with 16,500 computer-controlled lights inside, and will cast colored light beams 43 miles out to sea. The Egyptian government has approved the plan, and only the small matter of financing--to the tune...
...year-old loner, disconcerted and flattered at first, began to understand the price to be paid. Anne Morrow, the deeply private daughter of Dwight Morrow, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, married Lindbergh a year after the flight; she eventually became a superb and often popular writer (Gift from the Sea), but shared the terrible price of Lindbergh's celebrity (most devastatingly exacted in the kidnap-murder of their first child in 1932)--and suffered as well from her husband's self-absorbed and cross-grained nature...
...three weeks, Bill Clinton has been on a World Apology Tour. It started in the Map Room, moved out to sea to a friendly island off the People's Republic of Massachusetts, then went on to the Kremlin and ended in Ireland. Not once, though, did he hit a pure, clean high note. In Dublin he finally coughed out an "I am sorry," but grudgingly, as if he were repeating something for a dense and demanding bunch of whiners...