Word: boardwalkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard, unhappy-looking men kept to themselves. Along the boardwalk, in the Atlantic City bars, they avoided civilians, even shunned other soldiers who had not been overseas. The hard young men were veteran Army Air Forces pilots and crewmen. They had had 21-day furloughs at home. Now they were at the Atlantic City redistribution center, being prepared for reassignment...
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...