Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airy villa, with modern bath, electric and charcoal kitchen, and a gallery (porch) with a view of one of the most breath-taking harbors west of Naples, cost $60 a month. For $150 a month the lotus-eater got the sort of house awed tourists peer at in Palm Beach-shady, parklike grounds on the mountainside, a sweeping gallery on which a hundred people could be entertained at cocktails, a tile swimming pool. Often the lower-priced houses had swimming pools...
...with $1.50 in cash, at 15. He started out fishing for smelts in a borrowed rowboat, was master of a big salmon boat, a purse seiner, within six years. In bloody battles, Big Nick (6 ft. 2 in., 226 Ibs.) led other purse seiners against the beach seiners (who use horses to drag flat nets up on shore), drove most of them out of the $59-million-a-year Alaska salmon industry...
...this case it does not fit. Natives of Wisbech say "Wizz-Beach...
...current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...
...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...