Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, if Tahiti was scarcely more than a tiny, surf-washed symbol of the French Empire, that symbol adorned the cause of Free France...
Archibald MacLeish (at University of Pennsylvania): "Those who tell you that the destroying guns, the ruinous bombs, the fire, the misery, the indiscriminate death of the Fascist military action are a new, creative, irresistible historic force which you cannot oppose but only ride with as the rubbish rides the surf are victims prophesying with the tongues of victims...
Fourteen-year-old Robert Tyre Jones Jr. stood on the first tee of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club golf course, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around, the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones, Atlanta's Boy Wonder, was the youngest golfer ever to compete in the National Amateur...
That was 25 years ago, and last week 14-year-old Robert Tyre Jones III stood on the first tee of Chattanooga's Golf and Country Club, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones III, only son of the Boy Wonder who went on to become the world's greatest golfer, was making his debut in tournament golf...
...Sydney. Sailors rode free on busses, trains and trams, were ushered into theatres without charge, fed in Australian service men's buffets. With Sydney's girls, hungry for masculine entertainment since some 150,000 young Australians went abroad to fight for Britain, they bathed in the warm surf on Sydney beaches, picnicked, danced, reclined in the parks. At busy King's Cross intersection one sailor stopped traffic, led passers-by in song while police good-naturedly looked...