Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes fall asleep. It was nice, I guess. You didn't have to do nothing. Once we saw this little girl fishing across the water from us. She was a pretty thing, and my boy couldn't take his eyes off her. There was a woman on the shore of the creek behind her. She wasn't fishing, though. Not this lady. She had a portable radio, and a bottle of Jose Cuervo, and an old faded blanket, all yellow, like a cactus flower. One day I looked at her, and she didn't turn away. So I went over...
...doesn't do nothing 'cept watch you as you drift down the drainage ditch. Floating, you can see an old man on the shore, touching up his hair with a two-bit comb, jawing on a wad of fresh Bazooka...
...Lynch. "You can imagine what will happen when the real flooding of an already glutted market begins." A price war would be a risky, last-ditch change in strategy for OPEC, which has been floundering in an ocean of crude. For the past four years OPEC has tried to shore up prices by limiting the worldwide oversupply. The cartel squeezed its output from a peak of nearly 32 million bbls. per day in 1979 to just 18 million now. But such competitors as Britain and Mexico defeated that strategy by selling more oil. Like a lonely gas- station owner watching...
...find a better epitome of the expressionist vision of relationships between humans and nature than Kirchner's Striding into the Sea, 1912, with its naked lovers swept up in a kind of decorative pantheism, at one with the flouncing breakers and sharply writhing sand dunes of the Baltic shore...
Tailback Chris Flynn--who doubles as a punt returner--and fullback Mike O'Neill shore up the Penn attack which, like the Crimson's runs on about two-thirds of its plays...