Word: shores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tide and those in the eddy to lie head to eddy regardless of wind direction. And all boats reverse with the ebb and flow of the tides, appearing to play ring-around-a-rosy. This is especially noticeable in a small harbor where the tide tends to hug one shore and then eddies back along the opposite shore...
Americans were paying a heavy price as well. Two sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer Goldsborough died when shore fire hit the ship. The B-52s, with their six-man crews, suffered the worst losses. During the previous seven years, only one of the giant planes had gone down in combat. Last week at least eight were shot from the sky. After the first five days of strikes, the Pentagon acknowledged losing twelve aircraft. One airman was reported killed and 43 missing, 38 from the Air Force and five from the Navy...
...Mexico, the U.S., Algeria, the Soviet Union and Cuba. Allende's first trip outside Chile since he was elected President in 1970 had another purpose besides bolstering his prestige at home, which has been eroded by political and economic strife: he was seeking the credits needed to shore up a sagging economy...
...ship, and he was inconsistent in his policies governing matters such as hair length. When Townsend announced extensions of tour, one crew member claimed, he would say it was "a blessing in disguise." In such an atmosphere, already tense because of the long work hours and few shore leaves, little irritations festered into permanent sores, and idle talk ballooned into wild rumor...
...IMMEDIATE CAUSE of the Pacific outbreaks was the war, compounded by the resident racism of the Navy middle management. All three ships involved had served off Vietnam, maintaining the rate of destruction as Nixon wound down the war. Men worked 18 and 20 hour days, going weeks without shore leaves. And despite their distance from the destruction they wrought, Vietnam took its toll, and the crews were soon immersed in the same racial tension that has gripped the Army and Marines. Officers critical of Zumwalt are presently calling for his removal, citing a general breakdown of discipline, and Congressman Edward...