Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getter generate such heat that Campbell had to appoint him head of the big new Public Safety Department. Administrator Campbell's rigidity worried the political commissioners, who subtly retaliated by passing arbitrary ordinances for him to enforce, e.g., an apartment-only zoning rule for an area which Miami Beach had zoned for hotels...
Monday-The second convoy arrives. Four U.S. destroyers hover three miles offshore. Two LSMs reach the beach and begin unloading. Suddenly, at 1:33 p.m., the beach erupts in geysers of sand and water. One LSM, loaded with ammunition, is hit and explodes. The other hastily backs off without unloading...
Tuesday & Wednesday-Pleading bad weather, U.S. and Nationalist naval commands temporarily call off the convoys to consider new tactics. The Communist barrage has become steady, making beach and airfield almost unusable. In desperation, the Nationalists airdrop small quantities of medical supplies to Que-moy's garrison. Admiral Beakley comes ashore to consider with Taiwan Defense Command's Vice Admiral Smoot "what to do now." Beakley admits: "We are back right where we started before we began convoying. They called our hand when they shelled the beach and got that LSM. The Chicoms' guns can and will blast...
...police play favorites. Three Dade County deputy sheriffs junket down to Batista's Cuba, come home bragging openly that "it didn't cost a cent; we got the red-carpet treatment." Marcos Pérez Jimenez, former dictator of Venezuela, gains the gratitude of Miami Beach policemen by hiring them at fat fees to spend off-duty hours watching his $315,000 home...
...story. First Love-"true in every detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story, the narrator is smitten by a cute little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little saga of puppy love quickly brought to an end by the boy's tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces...