Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bridgeplayer Snite, 44, did not show up for the tournament's second day. In the West Palm Beach hotel room where he had been taking a nap in the iron lung, he was found dead. The respirator was working, but after so many years of pumping against it, Fred Snite's heart had failed in his sleep. Thus ended perhaps the most famed fight an American has ever made to stay alive and to enjoy life against terrible odds...
...pebbles, crashing on rocks, growing louder and louder until a big one landed with a thunderous roar, and the listener could almost see the flying spume and the screeching seagulls. Then, evoking a passage into a quiet bay, little waves lapped with a feathery sound on a soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with the gorgeous sound of the Queen Mary's deep bass whistle, and ending with the horrid harrumph of the West Quoddy Head horn...
...episode was related by William Taylor Johnson of Virginia Beach, Va., a contractor who built five Powell-approved projects. In August 1950, he said, Powell came from Washington and went to the nearby Dunes Club to gamble. "He had quite a few drinks" and lost heavily, Johnson said. At dawn they returned to Johnson's home but were followed by the Dunes Club operators, who demanded $3,000 to cover Powell's losses at dice. Johnson related that he gave Powell money to pay off the gamblers...
BURLINGTON MILLS, which recently became the biggest U.S. textile maker by buying control of Goodall-Sanford for $7,600,000 (TIME, July 26), is turning back part of the company to the original owners. For an undisclosed sum, Burlington will sell Goodall's Palm Beach clothes subsidiary to a group headed by former Goodall President Elmer Ward...
Tito's demands alternated between the extravagant and the trivial. He demanded corridors to the sea, large chunks of Italian-held territory, extraterritorial rights to and inside the port of Trieste. He fought over an acre here, a playground there, a rock quarry, a beach. But slowly his demands were beaten down to a strip of land one mile long and 400 yards wide running through the village of Lazaretto. The Italians, who stayed out of the London talks but were kept closely informed, entered some objections. Then Tito shifted some more...