Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty's yacht Britannia. As it steamed slowly toward the Pool of London, it was escorted by warships of the Royal Navy and the greatest flotilla of private craft since Britain's yachtsmen set forth in a body to rescue the British forces on the beach at Dunkirk. Some fresh from their beds in pajamas and trenchcoats, others stiff with long waiting, the observers on shore pinched each other at the sight of any moving figure on the yacht's deck and called excitedly: "There she is! There...
...boys were whooping it up in the Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip...
After months of treading that narrow, slushy path from Sever to The Bick, Cambridge life spreads like the lush Ivy on Widener's walls. Many paths head out through the Yard gates, some towards the banks of the Charles, others towards the beach and tennis courts, others just winding aimlessly through hot May sunshine...
...Westhampton Beach, N.Y., Bill Eager of Newark, N.J.. driving his Maserati at a 92.5-m.p.h. average, won the 150-mile Suffolk County Air Force Base race...
...William F. Gurney, 12, of West Palm Beach. Fla., saw a girl and boy trying to pick up some books that the girl had dropped on a railroad track. Gurney rushed onto the track, pushed the boy and girl off, then jumped clear himself-just as a train roared past...