Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will see my face no more...
...Jungle Discovered. To recuperate, Ensign Cousteau was assigned to shore duty at Toulon, spent hours working strength back into his arms by swimming in the Mediterranean. There in 1936 a fellow naval officer named Philippe Tailliez gave him a pair of goggles used by pearl fishermen. Cousteau put his head beneath the surface. Instantly his life was changed: "There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof...
...family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
...reddish eyes, a silver-bellied, copper-backed body that can grow as big as 6 ft. and 110 lbs. With snow on their foreheads and sweat on their cheeks, fishermen have struggled for more than an hour to land even 40-lb. catches, then continued the fight on shore with club and stone. One last-resort tactic: falling full-length on the huchen and smothering it in a snowbank...
...exhausted, the rats-many as big as young house cats -assemble and, like a disciplined army, march across paddies and vegetable gardens, eating everything. The broadest and swiftest rivers do not deflect them; as if hypnotized, they plunge into the water, and if not drowned, emerge on the far shore, appetites sharpened...