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Word: surfboarder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beside the Steers's swimming pool. While Caroline's nurse was changing, the other nurses and mothers helped Ivan's guests into their bathing suits; Caroline got suited up faster than anyone else. She slipped into the pool at the shallow end, grabbed a kiddie-sized surfboard and began to paddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitol: What Was That Lady Doing? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...York Republican Nelson Rockefeller tucked a frangipani blossom behind his ear and finger-dipped poi and lomi-lomi salmon. California Democrat Pat Brown hoisted his considerable self onto a surfboard and got spectacularly dunked in the blue Pacific. North Carolina Democrat Terry Sanford rode water skis, Massachusetts Republican John Volpe wiggled a hula, Idaho Republican Robert Smylie and Hawaii Republican William Quinn paddled an outrigger canoe. It was the 53rd Governors' Conference, and the 31 Democrats and 16 Republicans who showed up in Honolulu last week leaned heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governors: Poi & Politics | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An anthology of Australian athletics, including shark fishing, crocodile hunting surfboard racing, log splitting, sheep shearing, Australian football, jalopy racing-everything but billy-bonging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...favorite in the 400 meters, the top race for the girls. Holder of the world record (4:44.5 ), Chris is the long and leggy (5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) blonde leader of a strong U.S. team. Chris planes high and flat in the water like a surfboard, has a sea lion's endurance-and a teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia's Dawn Fraser, 22, an octogenarian by swimming standards, and the slumping, doubt-ridden Ilsa Konrads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Do a Little Better | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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