Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years' absence is in for a surprise. In 1965, an empty expanse of Pacific Ocean reached away from the city's beaches, homes, hotels and marinas. Today, a chain of islands, complete with waving palm trees and towering high-rise buildings, is the view from the shore...
...silence, the father consents to let her marry a man whom she loves-and he despises. At the Greek fete, as Anestis drunkenly dances in celebration of his stepsister's wedding, the servant's body mysteriously rises to the water's surface and begins floating to shore, bringing with it the dissolution of the house of Canalis...
...titular head of the crucial economics ministry, Wilson replaced supercautious Michael Stewart, 60, with Labor's fastest-rising star: lanky Peter Shore, 43. Though Wilson made it clear that he will run the show, Liverpoolreared, Cambridge-educated Shore will wield considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry...
...Says Shore: "Governments have got to be tough with inefficiency...
...Snub from Labor. To do all that, one of the first places Wilson and Shore may have to show some muscle is in dealing with Britain's featherbedding unions. Southern Region Railway men, for example, are threatening a 24-hour strike this month because some train drivers have lost pay as unprofitable service has been curtailed. But handling such problems will be difficult. The powerful Trades Union Congress has gone so far as to snub the Prime Minister by not even asking him to address its annual meeting this week...