Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boynton Beach...
...Guinea Union) Party into leadership of the ruling coalition in the Port Moresby Parliament, Somare often journeys back to his tribal area on the north coast of New Guinea, where he likes to "suck a couple of stubbies [short beers]" with betel-chewing friends on the white beach. A powerful man, he once broke up a brawl in the legislature by bear-hugging one of the combatants into submission...
...Little Love. Neither the Rollers nor their backers make any great claims for their music, and that is probably just as well. Their songs are essentially pale imitations of the 1960s, in which one can hear echoes of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Beach Boys mingled with the Rollers' own routine four-chord harmonies and chug-a-chug rhythms. The lyrics are never ambitious enough to confuse a ten-year-old. Sample...
...tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...
Squeaky Fromme, daughter of a well-to-do aeronautical engineer in Redondo Beach, Calif., was one of the first people to join Manson's demonic tribe in 1967, after she dropped out of El Camino College in Torrance, Calif. Her life in the self-styled family revolved around drugs, depraved sex and devotion to Manson, who made her his "main lady." As she testified at his murder trial in 1971: "We were riding on the wind. You could say that it's a nonsense world of Alice in Wonderland, but it makes a lot of sense. Everybody makes...