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Word: surfboard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast-growing conglomerate. My religion does not revolve around the worship of the sun god, and I generally wear clothes. Horrors of all, my waistline is thickening and my hair is thinning, and F don't even care. Matter of fact, I do not even own a surfboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...does he?" Then they were off in a motorcade of golf carts. As the party split, with Nixon and Johnson heading for the executive-office complex and the rest turning off to the presidential villa, Nixon called to Luci: "You can use the pool if you want. And my surfboard. I never use that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE POLITICS OF RECONCILIATION | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...Brezhnev (7) tells him to cool it. The street sign and elephant symbolize the Republican Party, with Senator Strom Thurmond (8) and a liberal (9) representing its two wings. Finally, a poor man (10) gets his first look at the new welfare package to see what it contains. Overall, surfboard in hand, stands a smiling President. Says Oliphant: "I'd be smiling too, if I were going to San Clemente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...freeway-hardly a format for getting off cracks about public figures. He did it anyway, by exhibiting gifts from his bag: a special award from the Optimists Club for Harold Stassen; a book of one-syllable words for William F. Buckley Jr.; an electric blanket for Frank Sinatra; a surfboard for General de Gaulle, to be used as a tongue depressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Eagleson told the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine about the improvisation and later improvements. The surfboard is made from two pieces of plywood hinged together and covered with foam rubber. The bedsore patient lies on it face down, with his legs at an angle of about 20° from the vertical, and the upper part of his body only 25° to 35° from the horizontal. In this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rehabilitation: Self-Sufficiency Surfboard | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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