Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Bends. The new Israelis walked with a confident swagger along beach front at Tel Aviv. They talked confidently-indeed, stridently-of a state of ten million, not necessarily confined to the present boundaries of Israel. It was a bad joke, and also a sober observation, that the idea of Drang nach Osten lived in the new nation of Hitler's victims. As they looked around them at a disorganized and unproductive Arab world, Israelis showed some of the reactions of the prewar Germans looking around a disorganized and unproductive Europe...
...Young lady," asks the stern policeman, "don't you know you can't wear a two-piece bathing suit on the beach?" "Why no," answers the girl; "which piece shall I take...
CHICAGO'S OAK STREET BEACH LIFEGUARDS DO NOT WEAR SHOCKING-PINK TRUNKS [TIME, JULY 26] . . . GUARDS ARE WEARING SWIM SUITS OF GANTROM, A LUMINESCENT, HIGH VISIBILITY FABRIC THAT CAN BE SEEN FOR TWO MILES. FOR YOUR INFORMATION COLOR IS NEON
Forbidden Subject. In Southern California, the Patton-La Beach rivalry was a high spot of every big meet. Betting odds were freely quoted in Los Angeles bars and barbershops. One night at Los Angeles' Coliseum, a record crowd of 59,661 turned out for a meet and saw Patton...
...reassured him: "If a runner is perfectly composed and at ease, he's no champion." Pursell was Patton's idol. When the coach suggested that Mel not dance ("It takes the tone out of your legs"), Mel didn't. He forsook swimming and lolling on the beach because Pursell advised him to. Pursell, no man to grab credit, told Patton that everything he knew about track he learned from Dean Cromwell...