Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west bank of the Jordan River, to give themselves a more defensible border as well as 2,165 more square miles of territory. With obvious envy, a British diplomat noted that the U.S. evacuation from Lebanon will be relatively easy, "since it merely involves walking down to the beach." But in Jordan there is no easy way out. Said the diplomat: "We don't regret going into Jordan. But we regret having had to do it." At week's end the U.S. embassy in Amman added to the confusion by "suggesting" that Americans in Jordan leave the country...
Long after midnight, bathers on Honolulu's Waikiki Beach were startled by a brilliant, soundless flash above the horizon to the southwest. The flash faded to reddish clouds that hung luminously in the night sky. Thousands of other Hawaiian residents saw it, and telephone switchboards were swamped with excited calls...
...Unemployment continued to spread, partly because of the entrance of graduates, students and other summer job seekers into the labor market. The Labor Department added Milwaukee, Los Angeles-Long Beach and Birmingham-all with troubled heavy industries-to its list of "substantial" labor surplus areas, but predicted a slight improvement in the employment picture within 60 days...
...story centers about Sidney, a fortyish widowered proprietor of a second-rate Miami Beach hotel, and his rather precocious 12-year-old son, Ally. Sid, who thinks Easy Street is just around the corner, needs $5300 to pay off debts and retain the hotel. So he phones his stupid but well-heeled brother Max in New York and drops a half-truth about Ally's poor health. Whereupon Max and wife Sophie fly down and want to take Ally home with them or marry Sid off to a wealthy young widow; but Sid prefers women's company without responsibility, particularly...
S.P.Q.-Hour. In Miami Beach, a 1,600-year-old Roman coin was collected from a parking meter...