Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cubes turned out to be the only source of water they had. The inexperienced crewmen could not row back to the Amphitrite. Neither could they make the shore. Pushed by the current and the 40-m.p.h. gale from the northeast, they drifted helplessly southwestward, parallel to the shoreline...
...engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south via the sheltered passages inside the Atlantic coastline. One morning last week, the ship chugged down Bogue Sound into the rough Atlantic, just off the North Carolina shore. The navigator set a compass course southeastward towards St. Thomas...
Long before sunset, the sky went black from a gathering northeaster. When the Amphitrite sprang a leak, Luttrell pointed her back to shore. But the rising gale was too much for the two large engines. Crippled and off her course, the Amphitrite hit a sand bar near the mouth of the Cape Fear River...
...evening when his rumrunner is at anchor off a North Atlantic beach, he sees two seals romping in the moonlit waters. He slips over the side, soon feels more kinship with their sleek, black, shiny forms than he has ever felt with humans. Nearing shore, man and seals edge up on some rocks to rest. On shore, a bored young miss with a high-powered rifle is waiting to pot the seals and collect a new thrill. Two shots crack, but the Negro hears only the first, because "his head had caved in ... And so it was true and doubly...
Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...