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Word: beaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny afternoon last week Besley sat down at his favorite window, focused his glasses on the lake. He watched a launch cut through the water, the frolicking bathers on the beach. Shifting his gaze inland he saw a woman sitting on a camp chair. She was reading a book. Walking slowly up from behind her, a white shirt in his hand, was a tanned, muscular, bare-chested man. Curious, Besley watched as the man walked along the edge of a thicket, suddenly dropped to his hands and knees and crawled into the bushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Room with a View | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...traditional squabbling and shrill cries broke out among the also-rans after Iowa's blue-eyed Carol Morris. 20. yare-proportioned (36-25-36) daughter of an Ottumwa minister, was crowned Miss Universe in the annual measurement melee at Long Beach, Calif. What especially irked some of the other girls: Carol is the second U.S. contestant to take the title in the past three years. One of the more outspoken Latin beauties, miffed Miss Chile (36-24-36), tried her own hand at judging. Meeowed she: "Miss Germany-second-is top-heavy ("40"-22-34). Miss Sweden-third-could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...slow trip down Britain's east coast becomes, in part, Lieutenant Falconer's uneasy odyssey in search of his own soul-a search begun when he learns that a chance bed companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles from the sapphires of the sea and the golden desert of the sands, and the sunshine of eternity rang around them . . . For an age-one lonely, solitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Beach | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Naked Truth. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Juanita Bradley, 27, won a divorce after testifying that her husband tried to drown her at the beach because she refused to play strip poker, complained to the court: "I don't even know how to play poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Agent Provocateur. In Crescent Beach, S.C., after three vacationers called police to report a bee swarm blocking the way into their house, Police Chief Howard Bailey replied: "I can't beat a bee with a blackjack, I can't shoot them and I can't arrest them. Tell you what. If you'll get 'em drunk, I'll come down and see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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