Search Details

Word: surfboard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...beach look leaves some veteran wave climbers bemused. Ed Hagan, 33, of Queens, N.Y., remembers how at the age of eight he transported his % surfboard on a converted shopping cart to Rockaway Beach. "All you ever needed was a board, trunks, wax and the urge to get wet." What? No multicolored zinc oxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: If Everybody Had an Ocean . . . | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

When he finally gets around to shaving. Fred also better look out for the well-hung surfer gliding off his neck, his rainbow-striped surfboard jutting out like a monstrous fiberglass phallus. Not to mention avoiding getting lost in the tropical rain forest or falling off the water fall over to the left...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Change Your Existence | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...Labor Day. Paul Parsons, 33, another abalone diver, suffered puncture wounds and lost much of his left buttock when a shark mauled him in the waters north of San Francisco. Surfer Bob Rice, 25, watched in horror as a 12-ft. carnivore clamped down on the front of his surfboard before swimming away in the waves off Cape Kiwanda, Ore. Says he: "It missed my hips by about four inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dangers of the Red Triangle | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...seat cushion will act as a floatation device." First off, if it's so damn unlikely that we're going to crash, why bother telling us about it? And a floatation device? Great, you're crashing into the water at 600 miles per hour--all you need is a surfboard...

Author: By Todd A. Valdes, | Title: No Sour Grapes | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Alter, an inveterate tinkerer, endeared himself in the mid-1950s to an earlier generation of Californians by introducing the first mass-produced balsa-wood and fiberglass surfboards. By 1960 he had become the world's leading supplier of the custom-made, polyure-thane-foam surfboard, which became a symbol of the California lifestyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happiness Is a Hobie Cat | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next