Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when practice had made good seamen of all the amateurs aboard the Cap Pilar, the vagaries of winds, currents and outdated charts continued to give Skipper Seligman moments of agonizing suspense. The Cap Pilar's adventures-standing off the great surf of lonely Tristan da Cunha, fleeing before the howling westerlies from the Cape of Good Hope across nearly 6,000 miles of ocean to Tasmania, delicately threading between the coral reefs of the South Seas-are fascinating reminders of the age of seamanship...
...summer for more than half a century, artists-professional and amateur-from all over North America have come down the winding, bumpy, narrow road to Peggy's Cove, 35 miles southwest of Halifax, on Nova Scotia's granite coast. From dawn to dusk they have painted the surf smashing against the rocks and the jumble of houses, tumbledown fishing shacks, crooked wharves, dories, fish barrels and lobster pots that line the coast. Many go away at summer's end in agreement with Halifax Artist William E. Degarthe, who says: "A person who doesn't feel...
...explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
...Palm Beach, where he now spends his winters, he lives in a large, cream-colored Spanish villa called "The Towers," which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...
...Chile's most gracious resort city the season was in full swing. Well-heeled Chileans and vacationists from foreign countries splashed in the green Pacific surf at Vina del Mar, took the summer sun on its white beaches 90 miles west of Santiago. Racing fans crowded the clubhouse and the rail at the Sporting Club to see Bromazo win the annual derby this week...