Word: seacoasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are the last of their ship to be hired, by the casually sadistic foreman of Stone Farm, which is both ironically and aptly named. Its holdings, bordering a wild, beautiful seacoast, are large and fertile; there is nothing stony about them. But its walled farmyard is like a prison; its heavy gates are locked each night, and workers are treated like convicts...
...enchanting youth. But O'Brien does not bring to this situation any of the doomed morbidity that hovers over Thomas Mann's tale. For one thing, Anna is much too brisk and sensible to believe herself trapped by any fate. And the physical world of the Spanish seacoast is too astonishing to allow prolonged brooding. Remembering misty Ireland and rainy London, Anna is constantly dazzled by the light: "The sun blazed and emphasized everything, sugar crumbs on a plate which the previous person had left, the white gold of the watch, a parrot on its lead, its greenness seeming...
CONCORD, N.H.--Evacuating the popular seacoast area during an accident at the Seabrook nuclear power plant would result in near chaos, officials from coastal communities told federal regulators yesterday...
...territory by war in 1967 and ever since has ruled 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs by force. In just six days of fighting, Israel occupied 2,270 sq. mi. of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as the Golan Heights and the finger of Mediterranean seacoast known as the Gaza Strip. Last week, as Israelis prepared to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Six-Day War, they seemed as determined as ever to hold on to the West Bank...
...love it" "But Ted, I don't like seafood." Portuguese dishes, and the menu at the Casa, mostly consist of fish and shellfish, as a natural result of Portugal's seacoast. I was worried. But Portuguese seafood is unlike any other fish dish you'll ever eat--it's good. Really good...