Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boat cruised east along Malecon Drive, at times no more than 30 yds. from the sea wall, shot up the Havana Riviera hotel-a favorite of Iron Curtain visitors-and left flames licking from third-floor windows. Farther east along the shore, a second raiding group blasted away at a police station, then at a group of soldiers, who scrambled for cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion...
...working out his return to his normal station by supernatural means, the idea of art as a means of grace. Prospero's salvation comes though works as well as fortune--the fortune that thrusts him from his study as well as the fortune that brings his enemies to his shore. To characterize Prospero, like Leontes, as the servant of his random thoughts, is to seriously mistake...
...World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
Blood streaming from a split lip, Huggins splashed down west of the island, inflated one of his two water wings, and stroked off toward shore, figuring to hide out. But as he neared the beach, he saw a group of men watching him. "One looked like a kid," he recalled. "I actually remember saying hello." Gunfire from the beach told him it was time to say goodbye. Huggins swam seaward, firing an occasional round from his waterlogged Smith & Wesson .38 to keep the snipers low. Then he saw two swimmers trying to outflank him from the north. "I squeezed...
...against such intolerable conditions that the seamen struck. Better pay and decent food, shore leave, protection against brutality-these were among the modest demands of men who continued to show their deposed officers elaborate courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered...