Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach." The watches found on the dead had stopped at a quarter past nine...
...Worry. At week's end, Sam Rayburn dropped in for a couple of days, and kept himself carefully covered to avoid getting sunburned. The President gave him a sport shirt (coffee-colored with figures of cranes and palm fronds) and took a walk with him down the beach. As Sam left, he told reporters that the country had nothing to worry about. "I don't see anything for anyone to be scared about," he said. "If a major recession or depression comes-which I do not expect-it will not be justified by our economic situation but will...
...season. The Cuban season starts in the spring, hits a peak in midsummer (30,000 in June, July, August and September), ends this week. During the summer, Cubans joke that Biscayne Boulevard is merely an extension of Havana's Prado; Cuban business kept a record 225 of Miami Beach's 338 hotels open all this year...
Mornings, the President lay abed until 7:30 a.m.-far beyond his usual rising hour. With Adviser Clark Clifford, Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, and Senate Secretary-to-be Les Biffle, he walked daily over to the secluded enlisted men's beach. There he donned a pair of trunks and splashed in the coral-green waters, using the peculiar head-out-of-water stroke he calls the "Missouri sidestroke." Afterwards, he clapped his pith helmet on his head, lolled on the beach reading newspapers while his aides threw a ball or played darts...
Mark of Affection. In Long Beach, Calif., Seaman Rudolphus Hill refused to prosecute the jealous lady friend who had laid his scalp open with a beer bottle: he was "happy to know I affect women that...