Word: rehoboth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business administration. He first emerged from the pack of personable young officers assigned to White House social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge for Lynda and two friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...
...host of businessmen whose jobs give them a slightly longer tether and who have shipped their families off to resorts, summer is the time of the long-distance commute. Especially along the Eastern Seaboard from Washington to Boston, the trek to rejoin families for the weekend in resorts at Rehoboth Beach, Del., Cape Cod, the White Mountains or the coast of Maine is a grueling ordeal...
Graduated from the Andover-Newton Theological School in 1893, Rev. Oxnard's first pastorate was in Portland, Maine. He has also had parishes in Lawrence, Newton, New Bedford, Rehoboth, Southboro and Boxboro...
...waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some 2,000 people evacuated towns between Atlantic City and Cape May. A 35-room wing of the million-dollar Atlantic Sands Motel was shattered in Rehoboth Beach, Del., just part of that resort city's $50 million damage. Helicopters laboriously carried 800 residents off Virginia's Chincoteague Island; some 2,000 others left when buses got through. The tides swamped resort facilities at Kitty Hawk, N.C., dumped sand into luxury hotels as far south as Miami...
...When a Coast Guard amphibious duck overturned at Beach Haven Inlet, N.J., its nine occupants linked arms in waist-deep water, but loft. waves broke the chain, dragged two middle-aged couples to their deaths. Mrs. Ralph Poynton, 82, refused help as water leaped at the foundation of her Rehoboth Beach home, told rescuers: "I've got plenty of food, and there's a coal fire going in the kitchen range. I'll stay." Within hours she was dead of a heart attack...