Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore lie the lovely rolling hills of Natal, whose citizens claim the soil is so rich that "if you throw seeds into your garden when you go to bed, you won't be able to see out of your window in the morning...
...latest incident involved an Israeli patrol boat, which came within 150 yards of the Syrian seacoast town of Musadiye. According to Syria, the boat fired toward shore. According to Israel, the Syrians fired first. Either way a flock of Syrian MIG-17s and MIG-21s came flying in from one direction and Israeli Mirage-Ills from the other, and before the two sides stopped shooting, one MIG went into the drink and another crashed in Syrian territory...
BEVERLY, MASS. North Shore Music Theater: The Merry Widow, through...
...Visitors. A lake dies of eutrophication, or quite simply over-nourishment. With or without humans, accumulations of sewage draining its way through the earth feeds a lake with nitrate and phosphate nutrients, the baby food of algae and plankton. Gingerly tugging the shore line at first, these willowy green growths are the stuff that giant, billowing swamps are later made of. After a few centuries or a millennium, a meadow sits where a lake once sparkled. In his wanton, willful way, man can speed up this process to mere decades...
...power in an intelligent tale about a character admittedly modeled on the late James Forrestal. All the Little Heroes (Bobbs-Merrill) by Herbert Wilner, 40, describes with tender humor and felicity how in the last ten days of his life a dying man learns how to live. This Blessed Shore (Shorecrest) by Thomas B. Morgan, 39, recounts with rage and considerable skill how another dying man (the author's father) suffered terminal agonies that in Morgan's opinion required the exercise of euthanasia...