Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well drilling platform, 14 miles off the Louisiana bayou shore, there was a sudden roar. Into the air shot great hissing sheets of flame. What oilmen fear worst-a well "blowout" and fire-had set aflame two of Pure Oil Co.'s gas wells...
...always an effort to hack through the tangle of generalities in State of the Union speeches to get to their specific proposals. President Eisenhower's is no exception. Phrases like "encourage foreign trade while preserving legitimate domestic industries" or pleas to shore-up farm prices while recognizing the plight of housewives, show that the President, for all his vigor, maintains in January his fence-sitting habits of last fall. But enough of the specifics gleaned from his speech, plus the republican election platform, show what will be the Administration's domestic policy for the next four years...
Four years ago Norah Berg, self-styled "The Beachcomber," of Ocean City, Wash. wrote to tell us about the lively little community of shore-dwellers whose members, she said, "live in shacks and spend their time reading, fighting and drinking home-brew," as well as engaging in heated debates about the material they read. In her letter, printed in this space, Mrs. Berg said that she would like to write a book about them, if she "could more aptly portray the lives of these people...
...ship's quartermaster ordered all who could to swim for their lives. Fifty brave souls obeyed, among them Langdon Harris, 32, the only American aboard. As each bobbing head drew clear of the oil-covered maelstrom, Lebanese fishers plunged into the rollers and towed the survivors to shore. Langdon Harris and a ten-year-old French boy whom he held in his arms were among the 35 to reach the shore alive; 17 were drowned or smashed to pulp on the rocks...
...productive achievement was an overall triumph, it was seriously marred by one grave failure. The U.S. did not produce enough arms to meet its needs in Korea, to supply NATO, and to shore up the free world at all its other weak points. It even failed to turn out enough ammunition to supply the limited forces in Korea...