Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many more such outlandish craft will be built to exploit the fabulous treasure of oil, gas and sulphur that lies under the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Bringing it up and to shore will be hard, risky and expensive, but the oilmen, though strangers to the sea, are the most supremely confident of confident Americans...
...cozy little resort spot called Zephyr Cove on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, sultry Cinemactress Ava Gardner, 31, settled down for six weeks while awaiting a divorce from Husband No. 3, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which...
There is and probably will continue to be a basic divergence of aims between the Americans and the French, but the plan is compatible with both: the U.S. hopes with these troops to win the war: the French believe the new Vietnamese divisions may he useful to shore up the French bargaining position to get a better negotiated peace. Final agreement on details is expected in Saigon within the next two weeks...
...took the explosion at 6:20 a.m.-on the way from refitting in Norfolk to her home base at Quonset Point, R.I. As soon as the alarm was flashed ashore, the Quonset Point Naval Air Station rounded up all helicopters in the area and began a ship-to-shore ambulance service. Fires were under control by 8, but as the carrier glided up Narragansett Bay at 12:30 p.m. for her homecoming, rescue parties were still prowling through the blackened compartments, and the dead, shrouded in white blankets, were spaced across the hangar deck...
More persuasive than pleas was Bidault's effort to shore up France's military posture. In Paris, he asked the Cabinet "to make one last military effort in IndoChina to back up my diplomatic effort." The Cabinet, which has acquired a certain courage from the realization that nobody wants to take over its unpleasant task, agreed, and set about sending reinforcements to Indo-China (see below...