Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annie was ready. On the north beach, three miles away, the wife of a man on the firing crew crossed her arms and said softly: "Oh, God, please make it go. Help Jerry make it go right." In three minutes flame welled up in the launching stand. "She's going!" howled a woman on the beach. Down dropped the last of Big Annie's moorings. A man cried: "She's off!" All along the beaches the chant picked up new voices, a soaring, surging chain reaction sent them into a recitative: "Go!" they yelled...
...Annie lifted off smoothly, her twin orange exhaust tails bright against the overcast. Up she shot, straight into the first cloud layer at 3,000 ft. as the shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines...
...domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest collection of permanently established floating crapshooters seen east of Las Vegas, plus dozens of big-time Miami Beach horseplayers...
Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
...game :by twice winning the U.S. Championship (1912, 1913) with his big serve, violent overhead smashes and net-rushing tactics (all previously unknown in big-time Eastern tennis), retired in 1919 after a decisive quarter-finals loss to Richard Norris Williams II; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif...