Word: beachful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bavasi then called Walter O'Malley in Vero Beach, Fla., and they agreed $210,000 for both was the highest would offer. Dodger officials wished pitchers well in other fields...
...tanned, lanky Hamilton, 26, whose attributes are more highly esteemed by Hollywood starlets than by the movie critics, comes to such sumptuous living, he says, via a "sort of flotsam and jetsam route"-Memphis, Palm Beach, Manhattan, 25 different schools. His late father was a musician and perfume company executive. His Southern-born mother, George says, is "an Auntie Mame, but more warm and contemporary," who has been married and divorced four times...
...probably the only living witness to what happened when Nimitz ran the destroyer Decatur aground in 1908. The ship was conducting torpedo practice; I was torpedo officer; Nimitz, commanding officer, was on the bridge. We fired at a target moored in shallow water near the beach, which made recovering torpedoes easier. Then the ship headed toward a dinghy stationed to secure the spent torpedo. We proceeded cautiously, taking soundings. Since the bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When...
...border, the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division continued Operation Hattiesburg, which so far has captured 240 tons of rice, three base camps and eight way stations, caches of TNT and 40 3.5 rockets. The men of the Big Red One also got 189 Communists in Operation Coco Beach near Ben Cat-150 when a regimental-size force of Reds charged a 1st Division bivouac in the predawn darkness. The 1st fired back at point-blank range with everything it had, including 105-mm. howitzers. Near Tuy Hoa, the 101st Airborne's Operation Harrison has so far accounted...
...long day's courtship moves from the beach to an impromptu airplane excursion to the Copenhagen zoo, then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner...