Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beach-rimmed isle of Cyprus last week, an old man looked at the sky. "The sunset is black over the sea," he quavered. "It is God's warning." Next day, Cyprus was shaken by its worst earthquake. A woman threw herself across her three-year-old daughter when the house crumbled, but she could not reach her son. "Why didn't God give me time to protect them both?" she wailed. In another village, a bride's veil hung above the ruins of a house where a young couple had been married the weekend before...
...Fine Line. In New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Robert Miles failed to persuade the city commission to change its zoning boundary splitting his property, still has his two bedrooms designated "residential," the rest of his apartment "commercial...
...with the slowly fading light. Life for everyone at Camp Perry, by noisy day and quiet night, was a pleasant summer bivouac. They slept on cots in Perry's concrete-floored hutments (billeting: $1 a day), ate cafeteria-style in a big mess hall, stole off to the beach, a stone's throw from the steady fusillade. Off the range, they talked trigger-happily of their guns...
...Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months of his life roaming wild on a Brooklyn beach. Too weak to forage for food, he took refuge from oncoming winter in a deserted shanty, starved to death standing up, leaning against the shanty's wall, legs mired in knee-deep...
...problem of a $175,000 executive who is able to keep only $48,000 in take-home pay is not one calculated to arouse the sympathy of the average wage-earner. And the well-heeled executive, describing his unhappy plight in the Waldorf-Astoria bar or on the beach at Miami, is likely as not writing his entertainment or his vacation off on the company's expense account. But the problem of executive pay is nonetheless a real one to executives who are taking on greatly increased responsibilities with little or nothing to show for their efforts...