Word: boardwalk
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Everyone knew the big day had come. The excitement even awakened the Male-mutes that snooze on the boardwalk before the town's false-front stores. There was open water under the big railroad bridge half a mile upstream; that meant the Tanana River jam was breaking...
...tedious solemnity so weighed upon ebullient State Senator Julian James of Jonesboro, Ark., who accompanied Miss Arkansas to the finals, that he sought escape by pacing up & down the Boardwalk. Wherever he saw a crowd gathered around a weight-guesser or a salt-water-taffy artist, Politician James would step up and give the crowd a lesson in pronouncing the name of his home state: AR-can-saw, not ar-KANZUSS...
...miss the boardwalk at Jones each . . . Atlantic City . . . why not ankle out to 'Catabonie Beach'? They call it the Coney Island of North Africa...
Atlantic City is seeing many another wartime change: few visitors throng the eight-mile boardwalk; concessionaires' shops are half empty; sand sculptors have taken to drawing crayon pictures on discreetly lighted easels; and night strollers out after 1:30 a.m. are subject to questioning by the Army and Coast Guard...
...final break began last September. Murray was in Atlantic City, convalescing from a long illness. Lewis had clumped into the New Jersey resort, and during a boardwalk promenade had demanded that Murray turn against the Administration's foreign policy. Murray refused...