Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach, Calif...
...flashed Government warning bulletins. Floridians had 48 hours to get set for the impact. From Miami to Palm Beach, store fronts were boarded up, windows shuttered, shelters made ready. Out of Pahokee, in the Okeechobee farmlands, chugged two evacuation trains, carrying 5,000 refugees. Another 10,000 headed upstate in a bumper-to-bumper auto caravan...
Damage ran into millions of dollars. Two radio towers were toppled at Fort Lauderdale (where, in the lull of the eye's passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
...routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate). On the beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
...Pebble Beach, Calif., in the 47th U.S. Amateur Golf Championship, all the cheers were for 44-year-old Underdog Johnny Dawson. He had been politely invited not to play in the same tourney 18 years ago because he worked for a sporting-goods firm. By going into the real-estate business, Johnny had in recent years regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point...