Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That year of 1927 was the low point of his life, the dark night of the soul in which his real work began, when he stood on the shore of Lake Michigan and tried to decide whether or not to kill himself...
...arrived on that shore with the best New England credentials. His great-great-great-great-grandfather came from the Isle of Wight only ten years after the Mayflower's famous landing at Plymouth Rock and fathered a male line of descendants of which every one was a clergyman or a lawyer except Bucky's father, who became a merchant importer. But his most
Makaha is where the waves build up to 20 and 30 ft., and race diagonally into shore at 35 m.p.h. It is the supreme test-"the place," says one surfer, "where reputations are made...
...Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...
...always there was the evidence of the Bible. The Old Testament names numerous "cities," tells roughly where they stood, and suggests where to look for more. When the Israelites under Moses were pressing toward the Promised Land, they asked permission to pass through Edom and Moab on the shore of the Dead Sea, promising to stay on the "king's highway," and not to drink the water of the country. Still the King of Edom refused, forcing the Israelites to detour through the dangerous eastern desert...