Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misty horizon, 51 miles off shore, 100 oil workers struggled desperately on Union Oil Co.'s 150-ft.-high Platform A, beneath which oil was leaking steadily from a fissure in the ocean floor. Barges carrying 15,000 barrels of sealant were towed to the platform, where the crew pumped the plasticlike substance down into a 3,500-ft. hole in the ocean's bottom at a rate of 1,500 barrels an hour. For days, capping efforts had been stymied by high seas, and escaping oil had continued to spread out from the long-legged...
...looking out over the Pacific Ocean. Two days before, 11 people had been killed by a mud-slide in Southern California, a result of the worst flooding in the state in 31 years; now it was bright and sunny, and far below the surf was pounding in against the shore...
...Esalen had been highest, there had been as many as three different couples making love next to each other, on the rest tables next to the baths, in the middle of the afternoon. And all this, the boy thought to himself, while the mighty Pacific surf pounded on the shore below...
Most teams sought to shore up their weak spots, though the Cleveland Browns, who already have an explosive running attack seemed to be padding when they opted for Michigan Halfback Ron Johnson. Green Bay's choice of unheralded Richie Moore, a 6-ft. 7-in., 290-lb. defensive tackle from Villanova, was based on more obvious logic. Aware that the current college crop is rich with running backs but thin on pro-caliber linemen, the Packers were apparently anxious to stock up on as much beef as they could...
...Post did not succumb without a struggle for new life. In 1962, Curtis directors found a new president in Matthew J. Culligan, a dashing former advertising man who had reversed the skidding revenues of NBC's Today show. Culligan hired and fired, wheeled and dealed, and managed to shore up Curtis' finances for a while. He installed Clay Blair Jr. as editor in chief of the Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel suits. The Post's last...