Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Party for Prestes. Marking their burgeoning strength, the Communists last week staged a gay party. The occasion: the birthday of their senator-elect leader, smoldering, classic-browed Luis Carlos Prestes. At Communist headquarters by Rio's tree-shaded Flamengo Beach, party members popped firecrackers, chewed gristly, barbecued beef, drank guaraná, a soft drink. While Prestes blew out the 48 candles on a 7-ft., 226-lb. cake decorated with a red hammer & sickle, guests sambaed to a socially significant new tune, "Milk, Meat & Bread...
Died. George J. ("Slim") Summerville, 51, bulb-nosed, sleepy-eyed, under-chinned veteran comedian who began as a pie-throwing Keystone Kop in Mack Sennett slapstick; of a stroke; in Laguna Beach, Calif...
When the last boatload of valiant fugitives pushed off from the beach at Dunkirk, they left, among the prone bodies, the carcasses of horses, the discarded rifles and smashed cannons, a historical deposit undistinguishable from the sands that the tide washed in & out. It was the remains of the faded Victorian Age, whose shibboleths of family security, personal freedom, humanity, honor, greatness of purpose, faith, liberalism and the intangible called decency had so long stood between civilized society and those forces within itself which are always at war with it. At one stride, a new age, The Age of Violence...
...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
...little boy who used to see faces in the veins of his grandfather's marble-top table. His students remembered how he used to lecture at Germany's famed Bauhaus, sitting hunched over, with his back to the class. His friends remembered him stumbling silently along a beach, staring at the convolutions of a sea shell in his fist...