Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beach dwellers were hastily evacuated...
First Day of Spring. By the fourth day, much of the interior was under rebel control, and a powerful fleet under Rojas was in the River Plate threatening to bombard the capital unless Perón quit. As a warning of what might come, rebel warships stood off the beach-resort city of Mar del Plata, shelled port installations and a government oil refinery...
...baseball player after Uncle Robbie's happy heart. In spring training at Daytona Beach. Fla. in 1916. Casey helped talk the Dodger manager into trying to catch a baseball dropped from one of those new-fangled flying machines. Robbie waited confidently on the beach, mitt poised, unaware that Casey had substituted a grapefruit for the ball...
...These fellas [the Dodgers] haven't got the speed they had even two years ago when we played them last. And I'll tell you something: we won the World Series back in Vero Beach this spring when we polished them off 17-3. That scared 'em. That scared 'em so much they win 22 and lose only 2 to start the season. But I showed them some of my old power and maybe they remember...
Goggled and greased, wearing Swimming: His means of expression tan-and-white bathing trunks and a white bathing cap, with K-rations strapped to his body and a compass strapped to his wrist, he jaunted down Carson's Beach, in South Boston, and plunged into the unusually rough waters of Pleasure Bay at 11:10 a.m. on an unusually raw Wednesday, boasting the intention of reaching Provincetown, 45 miles distant...