Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crest touched 30.24 feet. Then, slowly, the waters crept back down the markers on the rivermen's gauges. But the flood, even as it fell, showed its awesome power. The suction of the receding waters pulled huge chunks of muck from the levees. On the Omaha shore, the river forced its way into sewer outlets and gushed out with enough strength to lift a truck-trailer off the street and to buckle 120 feet of concrete pavement. Army engineers quickly dropped a lattice of steel I-beams across the sewer outlets, then jammed up the barrier with sandbags...
...same story was repeated all along the North Shore as thousands of Chicagoans poured out of the city searching for TV sets that could pick up Milwaukee's station WTMJ-TV. They left home because none of Chicago's four TV stations were carrying the middleweight championship fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano at the Chicago Stadium; the promoters had barred the local stations to ensure a good crowd...
...bigger: a 5,000,000-ton production rate by 1957, and an eventual expansion to 10.5 million tons. It will build a huge, ore-concentrating plant four miles from its present Aurora plant, a 60-mile railroad down to two islands near Schroeder (on Lake Superior's north shore), and its own harbor for loading the pellets into ore boats...
Many of the old salts of the little Island (population 500) ten miles off the Southern shore of Rhode Island did not like the ideas for vacationland that the prospective architects dreamed up. The inhabitants of the Island are content to keep their home just as it is rather than change it into the glamorous place that the students conceived...
...heave to. Instead, she made a break for it, and raced down the Seine on the crest of the tide. Off the village of Quillebeuf, she hit a sandbank, broached to and capsized. By the time her captain and crew of twelve had swum the 120-odd meters to shore, the Télémaque had sunk...