Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlene Mesick West Palm Beach...
...dashing figure whom a friend once called a "panther with an I.Q. of 180," Abu Hassan had not only dispensed terror, but lived with it for years. "I really need a vacation," he remarked a year ago, "maybe a beach in Brazil or the Caribbean. But I can't just go out and get on an airplane. I don't know if I can ever fly from one country to another again." For several months he had been staying off and on in an apartment just off the Rue Verdun with his second wife, Georgina, a former Miss...
...achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle out to Revere Beach every morning...
...tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
SPUTNIK. It was the earth's only other satellite except the moon, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball, hurtling around the planet at 18,000 m.p.h. An NBC radio announcer that October in 1957 bade his audience: "Listen now, for the sound which forever separates the old from the new." And over thousands of radios, from somewhere in space, came an eerie beep ... beep ... beep...