Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Personnel Aide Donald Dawson, one of the subjects of a Senate Committee report (which Harry Truman denounced as "asinine"), had exercised a marvelous influence over RFC. A fascinating note of the investigation: Dawson had spent more than 20 rent-free days in $3O-per-day accommodations in Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel, another RFC borrower. During the course of the investigation, RFC Directors Walter Dunham and William Willett were named as having been unduly influenced by Donald Dawson. Both left the Government-unmourned...
Back to the charms of grey Paris after a summer at gay Saint-Tropez, where she nursed her suntan on a hot beach all day and danced the cha cha cha all night, French Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan was enjoying the gift of independence she recently offered herself on her 21st birthday: a new dark blue, green and white apartment on the Left Bank, in place of the bourgeois restrictions of her sedate family home. On warm days when Françoise is not dashing about in her Studebaker, Buick, Jaguar (bought with her first royalty check) or Gordini...
...during World War I, collected a chestful of medals (including Britain's Victoria Cross. France's Croix de guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero's tour of Britain...
...rapid succession Kaiser has added a second unit of two-floor cabanas, a base ball diamond for Little Leaguers, a 1,000-seat convention hall, a second nightclub, shops, a dining room and beach club...
With less preparation than it takes to get a family of four off on a beach expedition, Her Majesty's Government sets out to fire a rocketship past the pull of earth's gravity, and at the same time touch off the world's first T-1 bomb, which is too big to be exploded on earth. A girl reporter (Lois Maxwell, about the only structurally sound object in Satellite) stows away on the unguarded vessel...