Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the grunion were running in full flow, and Southern Californians, as usual, were there to greet and catch them. Tide and moon tables were posted on the desk of many a businessman. On proper nights, autos jammed the highway from Malibu to Santa Monica; beach fires crackled from Long Beach to San Diego. As usual, some of the grunion hunters cuddled in the shadows, glad to forget the original purpose of their parties. But those who kept their minds on grunion splashed madly through the surf, snagging the slippery fish with their bare hands (nets are illegal). Since...
foot soldier ever touched a beach on Honshu. To command this force, "Tooey" Spaatz, director of the strategic campaign against Germany, was an obvious choice, both by seniority and accomplishment...
...completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...first important account a measly $6,000 a year over & above expenses. For the rugged job ahead, he felt the city should pay nearer what some of his other clients (Sun Valley, Union Pacific, Coca Cola, Anaconda Copper, etc.) pay. He asked for $25,000. Last week, Miami Beach said...
Then came the war, and beach hogs went to work. Army flyers in the Miami area for rest periods were charged as much as $40 a day for hotel rooms. Many wives could not afford to be with their servicemen husbands. War-wealthy civilians, who came for the races and were openly annoyed by the presence of soldiers, battened on the nation's blackest black market. Pressagent Hannagan had his work cut out for him; Miami Beach's face needed a thorough scrubbing...