Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion and left to drown...
...satisfaction on the progress of his newest enterprise. In his 73 years, Wenner-Gren has made fortunes in Electrolux vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Bofors antiaircraft guns and Mexican telephones. But of late, his major interest has been building a fabulous tropical resort worthy of the monocled titles and Palm Beach socialites that Swedish-born Wenner-Gren (who started his career at 15? an hour in a New Jersey tractor factory) finds congenial...
...sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered on the beach to kneel and pray in the driving rain...
...Carnegie foundation, staffed themselves with college faculty in the summer and closed down in the winter. Then, in 1946, as the fruit of Iselin's door knocking campaign in Washington, the Navy became interested in woods Hole. The Navy wanted to know how to forecast the waves on a beach. For this knowledge they turned to the contracts have turned the institute into a year round operation and cast a net of security over some of the research...
Janet M. Titus '55 of Malibu Beach, Calif, and Moors Hall was second, and Mary A. MacGregor '55 of Fargo, N.D. and Bertram Hall followed a close third...