Word: shores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour on the beaches, code-named Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha and Utah, came at 6:30 a.m. Thousands upon thousands of infantrymen packed into 1,500 boxy, flat-bottomed landing craft called Higgins boats churned toward shore. The weather had cleared, as predicted, but the wind still kicked up heavy waves that made most of the troops violently seasick. As the coastline appeared in the gray, misty light, the soldiers, each laden with almost 70 lbs. of wet battle gear, jumped neck-deep into the waves and scrambled ashore...
...29th Infantry divisions walked straight into heavy German machine-gun and artillery fire. Bodies piled up in the shallows amid wrenching cries for help. Officers struggled to rally those pinned down on the beach, but there were only four exits through the bluffs along the shore, and they were well covered by German guns. As a few Rangers managed to scale the heights, Navy ships steamed close along the shore to blast the German gun emplacements...
Yeah, we've still got the noxious fumes off exit 12, the urban nightmares of Newark, Jersey City and Camden and the syringe-laden beaches of the Jersey shore. But as if that wasn't enough, it's pretty apparent now that we've been cursed with two inept sports franchises...
Rostenkowski also proposed a set of potentially controversial changes to shore up Social Security, a week after release of a government report showing that the system remains in financial trouble. Among the proposals: lower cost of living increases, lower benefits and higher taxes...
...begins to creep. Then it detects the pulsating presence of a nearby capillary and darts between the cells that compose the blood- vessel wall. It dives into the red river that courses through lung and liver, breast and brain. An hour or so later, it surfaces on some tranquil shore, settles down and -- at the expense of its hapless neighbors -- begins to prosper...