Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined to hang onto North Africa. The richest and most troubled part of it is Morocco. Larger than California and potentially as productive, Morocco is corrugated by the ranges of the Atlas Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the Atlantic shore, Morocco abounds with vineyards, olive groves, forests and corn. More than 300.000 French colons, most of them settled in neat, irrigated farmsteads, have made its hillsides bloom. From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates. In its bustling seaside...
...spring day in 1947, among the barren Judean foothills that rise above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a goat in search of greener pasture precipitated the most significant religious discovery in recent history. As a Bedouin shepherd pursued the animal, he stumbled on a hidden cave. For Biblical scholars, the cave contained green pastures indeed: the first of the now famous Dead Sea Scrolls...
...decided last February to bring belated glamour to the plain-Jane diesel engine. Beside Soldier Field on Chicago's lake front, the company strung out eight miles of electrical conduits, laid 500,000 sq. ft. of reinforced paving, built a permanent, 204-ft.-long bridge over busy Lake Shore Drive. This week General Motors was ready to raise the curtain on "Powerama," a $7,000,000, 26-day, seven-day-a-week diesel opera...
Pastor Prince is such an apt pupil that he is called to become pastor of the large, powerful First Church in Mammonville -"an honor that angels would covet." But almost before he can turn his charm on the new congregation, he is inconsiderately called to the "bright golden shore...
...shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife and son, crying to him that he must not desert them any longer...