Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried for ten hours in the ruins of her kitchen, passed the time by telling fairy tales to one of her daughters. Another daughter lay dead and buried in the snow just beneath them. A woman of 70 was swept into the icy River Lutz and rescued from the shore more than two days later. But near by, a peasant, wearily plodding across the fields, saw his house, his wife, his mother and his three children all swept to oblivion in an instant...
Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport...
...headed toward dictatorship, Colonel Magloire set up a military junta and ousted him. Then by direct popular vote, he was elected President. His strong regime has brought comparative stability; he has launched a $40 million Five Year Plan, including a small-scale TVA project in the Artibonite Valley to shore up Haiti's economy...
...over, and in the peacetime Navy, with no enemy in sight, the ships seemed good enough for their purpose, and the "book" contained instructions to deal with every situation. Rickover was not spectacularly successful in that Navy. He disdained cocktail parties and other social occasions, passed up shore leave for his books, made no effort to attract the attention of rising senior officers who might help his career...
...varsity hockey team didn't need tire chains to get moving at Lynn's North Shore Sports Center Saturday night. The Crimson whipped Dartmouth, 4 to 0, and thereby established itself as a definite threat to retain its Beanpot tournament crown tonight and tomorrow...