Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bessie smashed with a fierce, unladylike scream at the Florida coast from Fort Lauderdale, 24 miles north of Miami, to the yacht-and villa-spangled shores of Palm Beach. Thundering winds (an anemometer at the Jupiter Inlet Light registered 162 before it was blown away) shattered plate glass, ripped roofs off buildings, filled city streets with flying debris. The blast battered coconuts from palm trees and bowled them about beaches and pavements. Power lines snapped with blinding blue flashes. A concrete and metal hangar at West Palm Beach was mashed and 40 airplanes wrecked...
...would cost nearly $1,000 to dismantle it, about $500 to cart it away from its perch on a midtown Manhattan street corner, another $4,500 to put it up somewhere else. Alfred Birnbaum, scraping along on his $105-a-month G.I. benefits while he studies optometry, just didn't have that kind of money. To make matters worse, it was costing $50 rent for every day the house remained on the parking lot, where it had been raffled away (at a loss) by the American Women's Voluntary Services...
...Ford in the vanguard) motored from Paris to the border, they were stopped cold by strangely hostile frontier guards. After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
...million yen or be a conquering hero. In his home town of Maebashi, a crumbling provincial capital near Tokyo, Handa spent just enough time at his little bicycle shop to keep his wife and two children in rice and modest clothes; the rest of his time he fribbled away in an aimless search for a milder spiritual refuge than the stern Shintoism of his ancestors...
Besieged by a crush of autograph hunters at a Paris swimming meet, ex-Olympic Champion and ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller fainted dead away...