Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual visitor to Buenos Aires is not likely to see many outward signs of a police state. The people are well fed and well clothed, and the look on the faces of afternoon strollers on Calle Florida is not one of misery. But the police state can be evident, even to the casual observer. One Saturday afternoon late last year, some engineering students threw a handful of anti-Perón leaflets from an upper-story window on a busy downtown street. Within 15 minutes, ten plainclothes policemen had arrested everyone caught reading the leaflets. Thirty-nine people were jailed...
Both were towheaded, wide-shouldered, active tots, bronzed by the Florida sun. Their ribs showed. Russ, who fed them protein baby food long after they were babies, said: "I keep them lean because they swim better." Eventually, both learned amazing stunts. Bubba would jump off a 33-ft. tower with his hands and feet tied and swim two lengths of the pool under water. Kathy swam seven miles every morning when training, and dived 20 feet blindfolded...
...English Channel. Bubba was five and Kathy four. The British were horrified, and after debate in Commons, refused to countenance Russ's fondest dream. Russ took the kids to France, but the French turned him down, too. Eventually Russ gave up and brought them home. They starred in Florida water carnivals and branched out with bit parts in an Esther Williams motion picture, Skirts Ahoy...
...young zoologist who had decided to take a job as a professor at the new University of Miami, the news in 1926 was depressing. The crash of Florida's big real-estate boom had all but wiped out the university backers; worse still was the devastation left by the 1926 hurricane. Zoologist Jay F. W. Pearson might never have gone to Miami at all if he had spotted the headline sooner: MIAMI IN RUINS...
...Donald Parson, the thermometer measures the long-wave radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape...