Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuller Brush, Avard Fuller started out to be an aeronautical engineer, decided in 1937 to join his father's company. He has been a door-to-door brush salesman but is best known for innovations in brushmaking machinery. Stout, balding Avard Fuller is a yachtsman (48-ft. ocean racing yawl) and a sports...
...Bold Journey (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A deep-diving visit to wrecked ships that have littered the ocean floor off France's south coast from as far back...
Looking down on the ocean from the Presidio, San Francisco's history-encrusted Army post, Master Sergeant Leo P. Day saw what happened next. "I could see the boy in the foaming red water, shouting and signaling someone to 'go back, go back.' Then I saw the girl, swimming toward him, completely ignoring his warning. It was the greatest exhibition of courage I have ever seen...
Sundae Punch. In Ocean Ridge, Fla., told to get a permit or stop vending on the Boynton Inlet docks, Ice Cream Peddler C. R. Wilson threw a left jab, broke the police chief's nose in four places...
Delight in Destruction. To Author Gray, war is at once an ecstasy and an agony, and he examines both with a philosopher's brooding eye. War, he believes, has enduring appeals: "Some scenes of battle, much like storms over the ocean or sunsets on the desert or the night sky seen through a telescope, are able to overawe the single individual and hold him in a spell." There is also the "communal joy" of comradeship and, sometimes, the delight in destruction: "Men who have lived in the zone of combat long enough to be veterans are sometimes possessed...