Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size-problems. Unexpected construction problems and disputes with Swiss authorities over routing changes have put ENI behind schedule on the Central Europe pipeline. A 342-mile branch is still lying idle because the German town of Lindau refuses to allow the construction of a five-mile segment along the shore of Lake Constance. Reason: fear that the pipe might burst and spew oil into the lake, polluting the town's water supply. The new Trans-Alpine project has already encountered its first delay. Indecisive elections have left San Dorligo, a town near Trieste, without a municipal government. Until...
...ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time for exercise. The shallow narration, sung and sniggered through by Burl Ives, steers a hazardous course from banality ("And now we say farewell to the land of the Sun God") to banality ("Cleopatra's golden chair asks: 'What happened to my beautiful owner?' "). What might...
...beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity. Had my father lived he would have lain on me at full length and would have crushed me. As luck had it, he died young. Amidst Aeneas and his follows who carry their Anchises on their backs, I move from shore to shore, alone and hating those invisible begetters who bestraddle their sons all their life long...
...preschoolers in to his Fifth Avenue home for ice cream, cake, and games. Then, with his mother and sister, he adjourned for the weekend to the family's house on Long Island, where he helped Caro line celebrate her seventh birthday with a number of her young North Shore neighbors...
...problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck - Perkins, in hip-high rubber waders slogged through the sludge, grabbed the mooselet around the rump and pulled it free. Next problem: How now to get Perkins out of the mud? Tooth-&-Claw. One rubber wading boot may still be mired on the shore of Watts Lake, testimony to the way that Marlin Perkins, 59, director of the St. Louis Zoo, gets into the act in each weekly episode of NBC's Wild King dom. Last Sunday's "Cattail Country" also had Perkins skimming around the lake in an airboat helping Government conservationists...