Word: dunes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson shot putters Henry Abbot, Steve Cohen, and Jim Doty produced a sweep in their event, but Wes Matson of Dartmouth took first over the varsity's Doty and Dune Johnson in the weight throw. Kelvin Kean won the high jump easily, clearing 6 ft., 2 in. but narrowly missing three tries for a new University record...
...spark was a wiry, 63-year-old Aussie track coach named Percy Cerutty. A physical-fitness fanatic, Cerutty got Elliott to develop his deep chest by lifting weights, harden his legs by such tricks as running through ankle-deep sand and sprinting up and down an 80-ft. sand dune 40 times a day or more. To give Elliott the energy to run 25 miles a day, Cerutty stoked him with oats, nuts and fruits. He urged his pupil to "thrust against pain and be contemptuous...
...back door was Provincetown's harbor, with gulls wheeling and blue water glinting in the September sun. Within, on the white walls of the HCE Gallery* hung seven huge canvases that seemed to catch the seaside shimmer and give back a tranquil reflection of the dune bushes, the Cape Cod fish pier, the cool blue of the sea. They were the latest work of Painter Milton Avery, whose clear, thinly brushed colors, picturing simple scenes, have earned him, at 65. a quiet, spreading fame...
Last week as the seasonal rains fell, signaling the start of ant harvest time, Santandereano peasants bolted their spring planting and scrambled as fast as their bare feet would take them to the dune-like ant hills that dot the countryside near the city of Bucaramanga. Stepping lively to avoid the angry swarms of worker ants, they seized the inch-long queens as they emerged, and popped them into hollowed calabashes. The nimblest harvesters caught up to three lbs. of ants in a morning's work...
...clock back is to get divorced and marry each other. A couple of years pass, and as Molly and Johnny cool toward their parents, they warm to each other. In keeping with the outdoorsy spirit of the novel's amours, Molly finally succumbs to Johnny on a sand dune. The wedding bells have a somber ring, what with Molly pregnant at 17, but middle-aging Ken and Sylvia Jorgenson rally round, and Summer Place ends on a sunnily implausible note of general contentment...