Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second Convair-Navy demonstration. As observers watched, Test Pilot Charles E. Richbourg taxied the experimental XF2-YI Sea Dart (TIME, Feb. 16, 1953) across San Diego Bay on its retractable "hydro-skis." The jet seaplane took off, circled the bay, screamed in for a 400-m.p.h. pass at the shore. Suddenly, 300 ft. above the water, the Sea Dart fell apart in a gush of flame and a shower of metal fragments. Pilot Richbourg lived only two minutes after rescuers pulled him from...
Pudgy Ed Turner, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Maryland's First District, paused for an instant in his speech to an Eastern Shore audience one day last week. Then he got off a remark that, on the surface, seemed singularly unexciting. Said Turner: "You know how I stand on our traditional way of life here on the Shore." His listeners immediately began stomping the floor, broke into wild whoops and hollers of approval. For the Eastern Shoremen did know how Ed Turner stands; he stands foursquare for the continued segregation of whites and Negroes in Maryland schools...
...Byrd is handling the issue more openly. Said he, in a speech at Snow Hill on the Eastern Shore: "You will want members of the school board appointed who will be able to deal and act in accordance with the age-old customs and traditions that have been part of our way of life." As with Ed Turner, there was stomping, whooping and hollering. Governor McKeldin's reply to this veiled demagoguery is: "I stand...
...best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
Time passed; lawns, courtyards and bastions disappeared to make way for mounds of earth and gaping excavations. Buttresses were built to shore up the sagging walls, but no treasure appeared. At last, after three years of digging, the worried contractors presented a bill for 9,362,000 francs and refused to dig another shovelful unless the marquise paid it in one month. But the marquise was broke...