Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Metropolitan District Commission constructed and put into operation three high-power electric lights along the banks of the Charles River between the Weeks Bridge and the Weld Boathouse. But the most dangerous part of the riverbank remains under-lit and inadequately patrolled...
Apparently the MDC would like to place similar lights along both banks of the river basin. If the MDC does succeed in lighting up the basin the obvious effect would be to deter crime--all sorts of crime--along the riverbank...
...general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near the fort...
...amazing adventures can occur-like losing your way. Tubers often float too far downstream or take the wrong fork. Early this summer two women chatted away so feverishly they did not notice that the river had slowed to a swamp. Startled by the sound of cows grazing on the riverbank a few feet away, they scrambled ashore, only to find their path blocked by a gun-toting farmer...
...Third Day. Looking agitated, George Peppard climbs through a broken guardrail, glances below at the riverbank where his Lincoln Continental and a take-home cocktail waitress have come to a bad end. He staggers off to a plush roadhouse where he is eyed knowingly by the bartender, the pianist, and his waiting chauffeur. He blinks, confused, unable to place faces but sensing in the situation something familiar. The familiar something is, of course, amnesia-the basic blackout of more suspense melodramas than most moviegoers care to remember...