Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ENTERTAINMENT: NBC's The Dinah Shore Show and Hallmark Hall of Fame...
...storm was of the crudest kind. Electrical failures shut off the power in more than 1,500,000 homes and institutions. More than a dozen people in Maryland were poisoned by carbon monoxide when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
...monsoon rains that caused landslides and washed away bridges. Another rebel column from Tapanuli was stopped dead by a government regiment that was supposed to switch over to the rebels but did not. Djakarta gleefully announced that the remnants of Nangolan's command were cornered on the eastern shore of Lake Toba...
Ivica stayed home brooding. So he was too old and too weak. "Budalastina [What poppycock]," he muttered. "I am stronger than all the men of Bol, and I will show them." Ivica knew a cove along the shore beyond the village. Hiding in the rocks of a reef 50 ft. out was a giant conger eel. For years the men of Bol had tried to catch it and had failed. Every day after the younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always...
Whipping into a 14-hours-a-day routine at the Ultimas Noticias building, Publisher Capriles celebrated Venezuela's freedom with a flurry of now-it-can-be-told newspaper stories. At the same time, Miguel Capriles and most other publishers realize that they can best shore up a shaky democracy by avoiding excess in their new freedom. Wryly, Capriles admits: "For the time being we are exercising a sort of self-censorship...