Word: surf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boatload of Haitian refugees founders in the Florida surf...
...suddenly swamped and its passengers spilled into the sea. Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging the bod ies of the less fortunate refugees out of the surf. The toll: 33 dead, including two pregnant women...
...midmorning, all of the victims had been recovered. Their bodies were laid amid the seaweed on the private beach. Many of the dead had been badly battered and their clothes shredded by the pounding surf. One woman clutched a fist ful of sand. A man had his shirt twisted around his neck. Among the meager belongings washed up on the beach: a copy of the New Testament, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the water. It was the worst such accident since some 50,000 illegal immigrants from the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation began arriving on U.S. shores...
...microgossip-the myriad back-nipping, back-fence, kitchen-table, men's-room exchanges all over the world, the low animated buzz of dirt-dishing that emanates from the globe-is the kind of gossip that may perform a kind of social mission. Microgossip keeps tumbling in like the surf, a Pepysian lounge...
...following addressed you by name: Surf (the lifeguard), Hun (the policeman), Marvin (the village idiot), Red (of Red's Peach Stand...