Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon ran slam-bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened the future not only of Nixon himself...
Patterson and Neelands-a former Capital board member who returned to duty last May only to shore up the failing line and make it attractive enough to invite a buyer-have already put their plans before the CAB. Stockholders in both companies, and the CAB itself, must approve the merger before it can go into effect. The CAB is partly to blame for Capital's troubles for allowing it to overextend itself. Hitherto, the CAB has followed a resolute policy of encouraging competition, discouraging mergers. If it reverses its position and okays the United-Capital plan-as most industry...
Still the assault boats streamed toward shore. Kilted commandos, festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years...
...ever met." The pressure never let up-and then, suddenly, it increased. In August 1957 the Soviets fired their first ICBM, and the oceans narrowed from thousands of miles to 30 minutes. The continental U.S. came within reach of a distant enemy firing from his own shore. On Oct. 4 that same year. Sputnik I soared into orbit. Official Washington, once it got over the shock, set about finding effective ways to respond to the increased Russian capabilities...
Billy's methods made the conventional odd jobs of Horatio Alger heroes seem sissified. He hung around barrooms waiting for drunks to come out fighting and perhaps lose some money for him to pick up; he parched stolen corn, swam to the Ohio shore and pushed back watermelons, set trotlines for catfish and trapped muskrats for the local doctor, who was an abortionist and fur dealer on the side. For a while he had as partner a deaf ex-moonshiner who had done a stretch in the pen, and from him he got a recipe for making corn likker...