Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg, the tarpon boats lay idle at their piers. Down the coast at Sarasota, merchants glumly watched the summer vacationists pack their bags and leave. The beach hot-dog stands were deserted at Indian Rocks and Pass-a-Grille; many beach cottages were empty. Under the hot summer sun, the stench of rotting fish seeped into houses, clung to clothes. The strange phenomenon which Floridians called the "Red Tide" had come back to the Gulf Coast...
...night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port Patrick. He looked back over his shoulder and said: "You bastard, I've conquered...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan in Jean Renoir's sullen thriller (TIME, June...
...Rocking-Chair Set. In Long Beach, Calif., cops were looking for two elderly women who had purred down a sidewalk in their electric motor chair, had run over and fatally injured a 73-year-old lady...
...Thirty-four Puget Sound seaplane owners startled residents of Port Townsend, Wash, by converging on it soon after dawn, landing their aircraft along half a mile of beach, and then leaping out for the world's first "seaplane breakfast...