Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside on the Florida beach, men 15 or 20 years his junior were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position...
January snow drifts down onto Long Nook beach. A piercing cold wind off the Atlantic knifes through even heavy overcoats and thick boots. Within minutes, the cold becomes unbearable. It is time to climb back up the sand dunes, which tower fifty feet above, to the Ford station wagon, now alone in the parking...
...been on the Cape a long time; years ago he lived in a mobile home on the beach in Provincetown, fishing and running his four-wheel drive over the dunes. Now, he runs a cottage colony in Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...
...like many others on the Cape: have traded their economic security (both were successful teachers before coming to the cape) in exchange for an unhurried, solitary and peaceful existence. On the weekends they walk the beaches, or visit the ponds in Wellfleet that Thoreau made famous. And they enjoy driving to Race Point beach in Provincetown--the tip of the Cape--and photographing the sunsets...
John Rossouw Bondi Beach, Australia...