Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first, the Marines met little resistance. They had chosen to assault the island's east coast by helicopter, rather than with landing craft, because advance intelligence probes found too many shoals and other obstacles on the island's northeastern shore. Within two hours, the Marines declared Pearls airport secure...
Harvard will undertake a $1.2 million reconstruction project the shore up the building, which houses many central administrative offices...
...anticrime campaign is a more subtle reflection of the maneuvering to shore up Deng. Genuinely popular, the drive has as its official purpose simply eradicating a growing number of violent crimes. Every day, public bulletin boards are plastered with new execution notices, while grim truckloads of prisoners are driven back and forth to draw attention to the severity of their sentences. The campaign is said to have been directly inspired by the need to protect Deng, physically and politically. A rumor has it that an attack upon Deng's motorcade occurred in August near the seaside resort of Beidaihe...
...travel book, subtitled A Journey Around Great Britain. Here he loathes almost everything he sees and despises each new horror more than the one before. Since there is no reason to believe that he is wholly wrong in his judgments, he convinces the reader that to visit this wretched shore would be an act of lunacy...
...when the South Niagara Youth Eight team crashed into the Eliot Street bridge a half-mile from the end of the three-mile upstream course. Moments later the boat was cut in two by Andover's entry. The boats were unable to move and had to be towed to shore...