Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riverbank campsite in Le Grand-Bornand, France, an Alpine village near the Swiss border, was crowded with holiday travelers on Bastille Day last week. When a violent summer downpour started, many of the 330 French, Dutch and Belgian vacationers took shelter in their trailers and cars. Then suddenly a tidal wave of water and mud cascaded down the river and engulfed the camp area, burying the vehicles and their trapped inhabitants under a mountain of ooze. The devastation killed 23 campers; eight more are still missing...
...graduate school of public policy--whichZeckhauser characterized as "growing liketopsy"--already rents space at 57 Church St. andat the 46 Dunster St. building of The SignetSociety. The Kennedy School also plans toconstruct another building on its Charles Riverbank location, capping off the third majoraddition to the school's physical plant in threeyears...
...help from Phil, who had vaulted across JFK street to the other side of the bridge, and a very nice man in an orange slicker driving the Weld launch, we made it. A gentle reminder from my stroke that I was steering the boat directly into the K-School riverbank aside, I was giving commands, moving an eight-man shell in sort of a straight line...
Starr County's 92 miles of riverbank affords myriad landing points for rubber rafts and the human "mules" who wade across with backpacks. Among some of the Hispanics who make up 96% of Starr's population, smuggling has been a tradition since the Civil War, when Confederate cotton was moved south...
MOSCOW--In an article linking the Chernobyl disaster with a history of Soviet bureaucratic bungling, a leading Russian newspaper yesterday criticized the choice of an often-flooded riverbank as the site for the nuclear power plant...