Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ferry that Monday morning, and even louder in the ears of those who stayed--still speak reverently of 1938. For it was on September 21 of that year that the worst natural disaster in American history sprang suddenly out of the South Atlantic, howled up the Eastern seaboard, and mercilessly devoured half our town in its churning 40-foot waves. Most who stayed for the party that time died. It wasn't until after World War II that the town slapped itself sober and began to rebuild...
From the Dakotas and Minnesota, across the icy Great Lakes of the Middle West and down the Eastern seaboard to shivering Florida, the winter of 1976-77 is already one of the coldest since the U.S. began keeping weather statistics-and the worst may be yet to come. If February roars like January, this winter could be the coldest ever recorded for much of the U.S.-the great winter that millions of Americans will be telling their grandchildren about decades from...
...four years at Harvard, Walker has developed one of the top diving teams in the East. Last year, Dave English became the first Harvard diver to win an Eastern Seaboard championship in ten years...
...York has so often been said to be. The rest of the U.S. has frequently regarded New York with a certain hostile suspicion. Barry Goldwater was probably thinking of New York some 15 years ago when he suggested that the country might be better off if the Eastern seaboard could be sawed off and allowed to float out to sea. In this opinion. New Yorkers were arrogant, crass, rude. They presumed to tell the rest of the nation-through television, magazines and books-what to think, how to dress. New York was everything that was wrong with citification: intellectual dandyism...
Hollis South proctor Vince McGugan, a former Harvard baseball star, claims he has never seen anything like the tournament in his four years as a proctor. "The tournament was completely unique, highly organized," says McGugan, "and we had some of the biggest games in eastern seaboard wiffle ball...