Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead of a way-out pad in San Francisco's North Beach; he has extensive investments; he has never said a single kind word for dope and has expressed interest-grammatically-in what happens to the world tomorrow...
...snips got through to Quemoy. The monsoons are coming on, and high seas in the Strait held back the convoys. But then the sea dropped, and the Nationalists punched through the Red blockade. On successive days and under a blizzard of shells, the amphibious LVT "alligators" waddled onto the beach from mother landing ships that stood four to six miles offshore. By also utilizing a big LSD (Landing Ship, Dock) to carry extra landing craft and supplies, the Nationalists put a record 790 tons on the beach in one day-90 tons more than the minimum needed to maintain present...
Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...
Choi had no chance to do anything foolish. He was aboard the LVT that swamped with eight Chinese, Japanese and Korean newsmen aboard in a high sea off Quemoy's Liaolo Beach. At week's end the Chinese Nationalists listed him as missing. Newsman Choi's last words before going over the side: "I can't swim very well...
Neighbor Hood. In Redondo Beach Calif., Leo D. Burr left a note on his door reading, "Make yourself at home-the key's under the mat," returned to find that a thief had taken two rifles, an adding machine, a typewriter, a sewing machine, a piggy bank...