Word: bimini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some New Englanders seemed to be where to go for a warm vacation. Thomas K. Wiehl III, a flight instructor in Pittsfield, Mass., flew a Connecticut vacationer south in search of sun. They landed in Savannah, Ga., balked at the 50° chill, rejected Key West (65°), figured Bimini ought to do better than its 70°, and eventually wound up 300 miles southeast of Miami in the Exuma Islands' toasty 85°. Then Wiehl flew home into the miseries of ice, sleet...
...could the commission find any evidence that Hunt and Sturgis had known each other before 1971. One unidentified witness asserted that Sturgis, born Frank Fiorini, had taken his name from the fictional character Hank Sturgis in Hunt's 1949 novel Bimini Run. But the commission found court records that Sturgis had changed his name in 1952 at the request of his mother, who had divorced his father and married a man named Ralph Sturgis...
...part-time pay." But his days as a political power were numbered, and in the 1970 Democratic Party primary he finally lost an election-to New York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall. Shaken, Powell retreated to the tiny Bahamian island of Bimini, where he played through his days, surrounded by girls in bikinis and enjoying such concoctions as a vodka-and-Tang drink that he called "poontang...
...tossed his wallet onto the Communion table and offered to bet $1,000 that nobody in the congregation could prove to him that it was wrong to drink whisky or sleep with women (no takers). Powell's consistent absenteeism in favor of relaxing at his Bahamian home in Bimini also cushioned the blow. Said one church member last week: "You don't miss what you're not getting...
...book is divided into three sections. The first, called "Bimini," ends when Andrew and David, Hudson's two young sons by an estranged wife, are killed with their mother in a distant automobile wreck. (Patrick and Gregory, Hemingway's two sons by his second wife, were injured in an auto crash in 1947.) In "Bimini," though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what...