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Word: lifeguard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composition is the girl's arm, tenderly outstretched toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks for the princess' suitor. In this case, Koerner says, the king may be the lifeguard in the boat, and he may have flung a ring into the water for the youth to retrieve. The man with the shadow-casting device, such as moviemakers employ, may be attempting to frustrate the lover from afar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...seldom travels from L.A., but like his original, Carey maintains the air of an adventurer, a man who might take one drink too many and wind up m Singapore with a full beard. Up from Hackensack, N.J., with stopovers as a Wall Street runner and a Jones Beach lifeguard, Carey has long been an admirer of Chandler's books, is openly proud of the fact that Chandler told him he would make a great Marlowe. What Chandler (who died last March) would think of the rest of the TV show is not quite so certain. On the picture tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Maria Julia pulled alongside the trawler Lifeguard with another boarding party ready to leap. But as the two ships tossed and rolled, the Icelandic boat was holed above the waterline by the Lifeguard's hull, and her boarders beaten back by a flourish of British boathooks and axes backed up by the threat of fire hoses primed with steaming water from the Lifeguard's boilers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: The Codfish War | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...mobil-est Tarzan of them all. An Olympic champion and once the fastest swimmer in the world, Weissmuller also holds the record for longevity as the jungle hero: twelve versions over 16 years. Today's Tarzan is Gordon Scott, 30, with a 50-in. chest. A onetime lifeguard at a Las Vegas hotel, Scott is the first Tarzan in color and CinemaScope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bongo Bongo Boffo | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...George W. Baer, 21, son of a Palo Alto auto dealer, was captain of Stanford's freshman water polo team, a key man in Stanford dramatic productions, a member of the Institute of International Relations. A history major, Baer spends his summers as a Palo Alto lifeguard, his winters making an almost straight A average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rhodesmen | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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