Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first ship crossed the tidal swell...
...shoppers dash madly for the intersection when an opening appears. Usually they make it, sometimes they don't. But that's precisely the point. In Washington you know you're going to make it, so why even try? It's more exciting to pilot a paddle-boat on the Tidal Basin and watch the cherry trees...
...sides and sag to earth." Dozens of oil tanks on the city's outskirts burst into flame, sending up columns of choking black smoke 20,000 ft. high. The tanks burned for 96 hours, despite efforts by U.S. planes to smother the flames with foam bombs. A tidal wave hurled fishing boats far inland. A nearby island rose 9 ft. in a series of jolts, as if a giant were using a lever. Tunnels caved in; a train was buried beneath the collapse of an overpass...
...tidal waves were murderous. At Beverly Beach State Park near Depoe Bay, Ore., four children who had been asleep in bedrolls were swept away. In Crescent City, Calif., the shock waves sent the sea pouring into the downtown sector to wreck 150 stores. Four gasoline storage plants exploded and burned. Three thousand townspeople fled; ten were drowned, 70 hurt, more than 50 missing. Near Los Angeles, 10-ft. waves damaged the coast of Santa Catalina Island. In Hawaii, residents of the city of Hilo fled to high ground as six huge waves lashed the shores...
Lights & Inner Tubes. But try to catch one. No fish has a greater ability to bewilder, bedevil, confuse and confound a fisherman, and none, pound for pound, fights harder. Because it inhabits exposed tidal flats, the bonefish is a nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving...