Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern Seaboard-the hour of shopping at the supermarket or of getting ready for a business lunch-when word flashed from Rome that a new Pope had been chosen. It was 9:07 a.m. on the West Coast-time to make breakfast or to drive to work-when the flickering radio signal carried the voice of Cardinal Canali announcing, in his soft, Italianate Latin: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum-habemus papam." The press, whose attention for days had been focused on the smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel, promptly provided both great clouds and small wisps of facts about...
Boston University, Brown, the Coast Guard Academy, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. will oppose the Crimson in the finals...
Hanson Robbins, William Saltonstall, Carlos Rodriguez, and David Gill will skipper the four Crimson boats. The regatta will be sailed in International 12 Dinghy class catboats, at the Coast Guard Academy in New London...
...dimpled dig at the competition. "I was born with very normal cries-different from one of my celebrated colleagues, whose very first cries were musical and admirable." Tebaldi's first raucously normal cries sounded 36 years ago, in the fishing town of Pesaro on Italy's Adriatic coast. Renata's father, Teobaldo Tebaldi, was a theater-orchestra cellist of dashing good looks. His wife, Giuseppina, six years older than he and a former volunteer nurse, was an iron-willed woman. When Renata was only three months old, Teobaldo deserted his family, and Giuseppina returned with the baby...
...Onionhead, an unfunny comedy about the Coast Guard, in which a wife seduces her husband's shipmates because he cannot satisfy her. (Article III, Section 3b: "Seduction is never acceptable subject matter for comedy...