Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while holding their annual convention at the Galt Ocean Mile Hotel, the 200 members of the Florida Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous consumed 449 gallons of coffee in three days, polished off another 35 gallons at a single banquet...
...relations (she has been a Harlem prostitute for a year) and chemistry (drinking water, she knows, helps the smoker extract that last bit of nourishment from a reefer). But Lu Ann is a little weak in geography. "Now Man," she says, "you aint gassin me you really got an ocean you can get to on the subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three-or-four-street patch of roach...
...finite imports any worth to a given point or segment. An immortal man would not be a man; like an unshakeably secure God, he would lack the tragic perspective of the mortal and the limited in which alone value appears. Water has no value to a fish in the ocean--but in a desert: ultimate and absolute. Thus the longing for "eternal happiness" seems rather a fierce hunger for the actualization of value, for the full incarnation of the summum bonumin reality, existence. It's not that the saints are pictured as consciously enduring beyond their bodies' last heartbeats...
...activities and dancing at night. During the day some families took bus trips to nearby Manchester Yacht Club, to Salem for an historical tour, or to Singing Beach. There a few brave souls, who, according to the class clown, "will never make their 50th., swam in 58 degrees ocean surf. On the links, E. Howard Roorbach, with a gross 82, and William T. Piper Jr., with a 33 putting score, took honors...
...commercial center of Guadeloupe, discussed the annual four-day bicycle race partly sponsored by the French Cycling Federation. Since 1946 the islands have been departments of France d'outre-mer (overseas) rather than colonies, and their citizens have wholeheartedly accepted the notion that the 4,250 miles of ocean separating them from the mainland are nothing more than an unfortunate geographical mistake...