Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea," explained Joseph van der Straeten, mine host at La Paix tavern in Belgium's seaside city of Knocke, "was to float slowly over the beach so that everyone could see me, then drop a trail rope to a waiting launch which would tow me back to shore. Generally speaking, it is a good idea. I've done it more than 60 times before. But this time it was not a good idea...
Last week, by the time Joseph's balloon had cleared Knocke beach, the wind had freshened. The balloon was 1,000 feet up and heading north at 25 m.p.h. The men in the motorboat made one grab for Joseph's line as he whipped by overhead and missed. Joseph, who had faithfully promised his wife that he would not go more than ten miles...
While playing with Montreal last summer, Newcombe got mad one day and went home to Elizabeth, N.J. to brood. Before the week was out, he telephoned Business Manager Buzzy Bavasi and asked humbly: "Will you take a damn fool back?" Last spring, at Vero Beach, Fla. Newcombe took a punch at Catcher Fermin Guerra of the Philadelphia A's, with whom he had trouble in the Cuban League last winter. Says Teammate Robinson, referring both to Newcombe's pitching and behavior: "He's smarter...
...great day had come at last. At 5:25 one gloomy morning last week, a tall, husky girl in an old green bathing suit strode down to the beach at Cap Gris Nez, France. Well displayed across her ample bosom were the words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
...from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still likes to when she swims at a deserted Long Island beach...