Word: awash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorcee; she was vivacious, smart, well educated. The affair blossomed in the 44-day voyage from Singapore to Boston. On the 45th day, when Utrecht left Boston for New York, the shipboard romance was dead-and so was Lynn Kauffman, whose half-nude body, brutally beaten, was found awash on Spectacle Island in Boston Bay. Last week police arrested Radio Officer Van Rie on a charge of murder...
...including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress Dorothy Malone was trapped between sheets of boiler plate in a cabin awash with icy brine. Explosions were set off in the engine room, where a half acre of paintwork unexpectedly ignited and 30-ft. flames threatened all hands...
...sixth straight term as Michigan's Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams is awash up to his green bow tie in money troubles. Last week he sputtered that the Republican majority in the Michigan senate had "doomed the state to a financial disaster" by rejecting his plea for a $50 million bond issue to meet state payrolls and other pressing expenses...
...week, Lover Boy is making the La Ronde Room pay off. One of the warmest winters in Florida's history has the Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which...
Watching the barely seaworthy fleet, so top-heavy that the lower guns rolled awash in a moderate sea, manned by semi-mutinous sailors and officered by incompetents, a staff officer groaned in despair: "This is simply nothing but a fraud-an infamous fraud." It would have been, without Admiral Rozhestvensky, a towering, bearded figure who bellowed crews into submission, fired live ammunition at ships slow in answering signals, bullied Hamburg-Amerika colliers into following the fleet to coal...