Word: abeam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dining with friends at one of France's best-known groaning boards, Maxim's in Paris, Monaco's Prince Rainier III, still sporting his summer crop of chin whiskers, and Princess Grace, radiantly pregnant, were all abeam. Grace's second child (all Monaco is praying for a boy) is duer in March. Next stopovers for the Grimaldis: London and then New York City...
...this issue of TIME closed, our editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage. Education's Marjorie Burns will be married to Research Physicist A. Bruce Brown Jr. on Oct. 19, Art's Joan Dye to Artist Alan Gussow on Oct. 21, and Foreign News's Monica von Swogetinsky to Lawyer Dudley Devine in December or January. Cheers and best wishes...
...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...
...days, a helicopter windmilled through grey, moist skies and gingerly deposited a grinning Eisenhower on the flight deck of the Roosevelt. There he watched the Navy's Corsairs, Skyraiders and twin-jet Banshees bombing and strafing a ten-foot-square wooden target floating abeam of the carrier. "Damn, that's shooting," Eisenhower muttered admiringly...