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Word: beaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows Tiegs sitting in a small wooden boat, wearing a modest, white one-piece bathing suit. She regards the camera gravely, with a look of total self-absorption. Her body and face are womanly, but her expression is that of a three-year-old girl playing intently at the beach. She sees the photographer, but from a place far inside herself. She seems profoundly calm. A viewer wonders: What does she find there? What is so fascinating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Model | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...have been somewhat overshadowed by those of the phenomenal Mr. Hackett, put on quite a show of his own in last night's first event, the 400-yd. individual medley. Coglin streaked to victory with a time of 4:04.27, which qualifies him for the NCAA Championships at Long Beach, California, later this month...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Trails at Easterns While Tigers Surge Ahead | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

...cars; the ocean flooded another 1000 homes and the army evacuated 3000 people, housing them temporarily in the town's schools. Pieces of the concrete seawall, weighing hundreds of pounds, floated through the streets as though they were styrofoam surfboards. Emergency crews erected a 15-foot floodwall along the beach in case a second storm which weather forecasters predicted would come a few days after the first, hit the town. However, it seems unlikely that dirt would have succeeded where tons of concrete had failed...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Hull, Mass.: Shelter From the Storm? | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

Shaun's writing efforts may lack the wit of the Beatles or the harmonic invention of the Beach Boys (two groups to whom Cassidy declares himself devoted), but lyrics like "Now you know I'm really glad/ I listened to my Mom and Dad" will go far to assuage parental anxiety. Nothing about Shaun is calculated to intimidate or offend. As Joe Hardy, boy sleuth, he is absolutely hygienic. In concert, he adorns himself in requisite skin-tights and shakes his tail at the yearning throngs, but the distinct outline of his briefs pressing through the clinging fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Squeaky-Clean Teen Dream | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...most abundantly complicated figures in the history of games. His career in boxing has of course been totally entangled with his celebrity-Ali may be the most famous man in the world. Since he took the heavyweight title from Sonny Listen in Miami Beach 14 years ago, "the Greatest" has been the protagonist of a vast popular psychodrama in which sport was only a part. But more vivid than his conversion to Islam, his anti-Viet Nam politics or his famous mouth is the memory of his sweet dancing vitality in the ring. That recollection played in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: To an Athlete Getting Old | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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