In a dictionary that Christopher Koonooka translated from Yupik to English, there are words describing wavy ice, shore fast ice, small cakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles.

NPR: Climate Changes Lives of Whalers in Alaska

Ideally, what the Marines need is an affordable vehicle that can get from ship to shore fast, seamlessly transition to land operations with the least amount of time spent exposed on the beach, and then charge inland with enough troops, firepower and protection to make a difference.

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Tory MPs with their moats and country homes and porticoes (whatever the hell they are) have already got away from the working classes as fast as they possibly could and now use their expenses to shore up the defences.

BBC: 'Appalled' Cameron leads payback

When we are 100 yards from shore, we stop swimming, caught--by design--in a fast-moving, northwesterly riptide, buoyed by our thick wetsuits.

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