Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy was anxious to shore up Yugoslavia's status as a "neutral," seemingly dissident Communist country. But to protect his own domestic political position, the President arranged a welcome that was courteous, correct-and about as cold as a stripper in a snowstorm...
Brisbane had been called in to shore up the Mirror, which was losing ground steadily in its race with the News. But he failed, and was succeeded in 1935 by Charles B. McCabe, then 36, who stayed on as publisher until the paper's death. McCabe did all a publisher could to polish the Mirror's public image, redesignated it "the paper with a heart," sponsored numerous community activities. Its pages, already crowded with lively columnists-Walter Winchell and Dan Parker, got more of the same. McCabe also stitched in some new comics and features beamed...
Once in operation, the ship could handle approximately 1000 tons of trash a day from Boston and Quincy, burning it beyond the three-mile limit and leaving the ashes about 20 miles from shore. It might, if successful, form the nucleus of a fleet handling all 4000 tons of refuse generated daily in the Greater Boston area...
...herring rather than the hake, haddock and cod that most American fishermen are after-but the other species tend to disappear after the herring, their natural food, becomes scarce. Industrial pollution in such nations as Japan and the U.S. has tended to drive the fish farther from shore and to make worse the lot of the smaller inshore fisherman...
...peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo); in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion. A round-the-clock watch was begun on the Malayan shore of the Malacca Straits, and 6,000 British, Gurkha and local troops and constabulary units doubled their patrols along Sarawak's tangled, 400-mile border with Indonesian Borneo...