Word: shores
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Using the pagers are thousands of doctors, construction bosses, executives, real estate salesmen and repair men. Undertakers in Chicago contact freelance embalmers by radio pager, and in Miami funeral directors are paged at graveside the same way. Off the Atlantic coast, fishing craft without ship-to-shore rigs are called in by radio pagers when storms threaten. In Denver, one motel-maintenance engineer packs a pager, and an executive beeps his daughter when he thinks that she ought to start home from an evening date...
Prompt Promise. Baker also evoked Lyndon Johnson's name four times. When he found in the summer of 1962 that he was desperately short of cash for his $1,200,000 Maryland shore Carousel Motel, Baker testified, he took his woes to Johnson, whom he described as "the best friend I had around the Capitol." Baker said: "The then Vice Presi dent picked up the phone and called his friend and my friend-Senator Kerr. He then advised me to go immediately to Senator Kerr's office, which...
...Chiang stands ready for any eventuality. The country's 600,000-man army is well trained and well equipped, and Chiang keeps 80,000 troops poised and battle-ready on Taiwan's sister islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which are still bombarded now and then by Communist shore batteries. His high-flying U-2s regularly overfly the mainland taking pictures of Red China's defenses. Nationalist agents still cross the Strait of Taiwan to infiltrate the mainland. Chiang's government claims that 40 anti-Communist incidents occurred on the mainland between March and October 1966, most...
...keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels to C rations, from barbed wire to frozen beef, each day's cargo was somehow swung from ship to shore...
Novelist-Playwright De Hartog (The Distant Shore, The Fourposter) makes Skipper Harinxma the most intriguing ship's officer since Horatio Hornblower. This is surprising in some ways, for the hero's trials occur on the well-plowed Murmansk run during World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights...