Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware that despite their own views, the great majority of the American people back the war; a Louis Harris poll, in fact, showed that no less than 72% of the public support Johnson on the war and that 59% want to intensify it. Third, the Senators were anxious to shore up their own political flanks. In Idaho, Church is worried that he may confront a recall move sponsored by members of the John Birch Society. In Oregon, a recent poll indicates that Democrat Robert Duncan, an all-out advocate of the war who lost narrowly to Mark Hatfield in last...
...Cuba and been sent to link up with the 200 or 300 guerrillas holed up in the Venezuelan Andes. Early last week the squad slid by night over the side of a Cuban sailing bark off the Venezuelan coast near Machurucuto, 70 miles east of Caracas, and started toward shore in two rafts. In the surf, one raft capsized, drowning one of the Cubans. Finding a deserted raft the next day, Venezuelan fishermen alerted the army, which hunted down the invaders before they could escape into the mountains. In a sharp fire fight, the Cuban commander of the contingent...
...only book he was now equipped to write, he remarked, was "The Naked and the Dead Go to Japan." But the mark of the great, or the would-be great, is that they can't do the same thing twice. Both of Mailer's next two novels, Barbary Shore and The Deer Park, struck out with the critics; the latter was rejected by seven publishers, and Mailer even considered printing it at his own expense...
...There is nothing dishonorable in itself in trying to shore up a non-Communist part of Asia," Hoffman said...
Harvard, in the lane closest to the Cambridge shore, led the two other varsity shells off the starting line. A three-quarters length lead opened up with only a quarter-mile gone. The Crimson was clearly in command, stroking at a very high 38 beats per minute before settling to 35 at the mile-and -a-half-to-go mark. Princeton and M.I.T. settled sooner and rowed the body of the race...