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• n  a bar of sand

• It has run the world's second-largest economy onto a sandbar that it can't get off.
• Out of the North Sea overcast one day last week, a flight of planes made repeated runs on a sandbar called Grosser Knechtsand and unloaded 45 bombs.
• A few minutes later, her former stepfather's wife Jackie Barrett left the sandbar where they had been sunning themselves and followed Campbell.

• sand bar

News & Articles

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• @ Town Council: Woods Hole gives coastal management recommendations
  Bob Hamilton, Woods Hole Group, answers questions, presents recommended plan for long-term coastal management: Using inlet sand would benefit the town as a whole. Still questions of ownership of groins. Rock revetments appropriate in certain areas. No sandbar mining, natural part of the ecosystem. Seawall decay is common due to salt spray. No need to raise seawalls. Proceed with EIS in Reach 8 ...
  June 11, 2013 - Palm Beach Daily News
• LAMBERT: I became a lifeguard because of the events of Black Sunday
  Published: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 15:10 PM. As a lifelong, Gulf Coast surfer, I was out in the water that day behind Sea Oats Motel in Destin. The swell was large enough to break on the outside sandbar which is pretty rare during the summer months.
  June 11, 2013 - The Destin Log
• Teen rescued from river in Wausau
  First responders have rescued a teenage girl from the river in Wausau. Fire officials said the girl was swimming with friends near Fern Island Sunday night when a strong current pulled her downstream. She apparently was trying to reach a sandbar about 15 feet from the island. Firefighters threw a rope to the girl as she clung to the pylons underneath the Thomas Street bridge and pulled her to ...
  June 10, 2013 - WISC-TV Madison

Quotes

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• John Malkovich in Chicago Sun-Times
  We did a play [at Steppenwolf] once called 'Sandbar Flatland,' which has a kind of immortal line which all of us still quote 30 years later,Malkovich said. "A character is giving a monologue to the audience in the theater, and at the end...
• Kelly Slater in SeaSailSurf.com
  All those years of surfing here all day long paid off in that heat,said Slater. "I could see where the waves were going to pop up and I could see where the wedge was going and whether it was going to pit on the reef or on the sandbar."...
• Jason Patric in CNN International
  It was famous,says Patric. "He was in a thing called the Sandbar Fight, and there was a duel. He was shot several times, and as he was shot, he went to the guy and he literally cut his heart out with the knife."