Word: shored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheaper by Water. To shore up the sandy, crumbling banks of the Arkansas, the project will spend $118.5 million alone on dikes and retaining walls. To control the silt, two large dams will be built on major tributaries to the Arkansas: the Eufaula on the Canadian River and the Oologah on the Verdigris. Finally, to make the shallow, shifting Arkansas navigable, engineers will build a series of 18 locks and dams along the 516-mile route, including the $90 million Dardanelle lock...
...crane while friends on the Western side wafted him 90 ft. across the Wall. Three teenage boys cut their way through barbed wire, and a coal miner, his courage kindled by schnapps, leaped 35 ft. from a bridge into a barge canal, then swam to the Western shore...
Schirra spent time on carriers and at naval shore bases. When the Korean war got going, he was assigned to an Arkansas National Guard squadron as an exchange pilot. His flying mates remember him as "a gung-ho, heads-up, by-the-book Annapolis man." but they forgave him because he was such a good pilot. He flew 90 missions, mostly ground strafing and low-level bombing. His missions got him credit for 1½ MIGs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. He also buzzed a U.S. camp, blew down lines of tents and was hotly reprimanded...
...middle of a sun-scorched desert, in thirsty earth so deep-down dry that it could soak up Niagara Falls, the blue waters of a sailboat-dotted lake ripple and lap at the parched shore. A mirage? No-the product of a burgeoning new business: lakemaking...
...Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. In San Francisco. Hearst's Examiner gave the newcomer a qualified editorial greeting: "It cannot and won't attempt to compete with us in our traditional role as San Francisco's and Northern California's No. 1 newspaper. Welcome to our shore." The Los Angeles Times dismissed the debut in two paragraphs back in the business section. Later, its management chortled over how many Los Angeles stories the immigrant had missed...