Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homer called it "the navel of the sea," Malta has been an island in search of an umbilical cord. 'Alone and vulnerable in the Mediterranean, 150 miles south of Italy, the rock (9 by 17 miles) has no economic value. But a fine deep harbor on its northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown colony...
...students who might have been closely exposed to Thomas were given gamma globulin yesterday to shore up their powers of resistence, Farnsworth reported. There will be no quarantine action by the College...
Moffat and Lanouette were suddenly pitched from their canoe, but Grinnell and Franck, second in line, were miraculously able to shoot the rapids, unload their canoe on shore, and head back for the others. By this time Pessl's canoe had also turned over, leaving four men floundering in the freezing water...
...Capital. Because Argentina's capital is a seaport, lying on the broad, deep estuary called the Río de la Plata, a lot depended on what the navy did. The River Plate fleet, apparently on the rebel side from the start, gathered near the Uruguayan shore of the estuary. Admiral Isaac Rojas, commander of the rebel fleet, proclaimed a blockade of the capital. "The entire navy is heading for Buenos Aires," he said, contradicting repeated government assertions that the high-seas fleet was peaceably anchored at a port in southern Argentina. The rebels threatened to bombard the capital...
When the yacht reached Panama at night and dropped anchor, a speedboat zigzagged out from shore and megaphoned: "Get the hell outa here -you're anchored in the middle of a minefield." Ashore, Forbis almost died of a ruptured appendix. "I had a bad week or so there." said Payne. "I thought I was going to have to send some painful letters home...