Word: surfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bathing suits, like ground hogs, are harbingers of a sort. Flung into department store show windows in the gusty middle of March, they hold the promise of summer in every synthetic strand; mannequins plant tanned plastic legs in the cardboard surf, shading their painted eyes against a light bulb of a sun, and even the earliest shopper sniffs about anxiously for a hint of sea smell in the icy air. But by April's end, summer seems only split seconds away; across the U.S. last week, bathing suit sales began to show something of the shape to come...
...water temperature was a frigid 54° one day recently when Mary Margaret Revell, a pretty blonde of 25, stepped into the surf at Sicily's Lido di Mortelle, pulled a pair of goggles over her eyes, and set out for the distant Italian coast. Two and a half hours later, she waded ashore, paused just long enough to gulp down honey, glucose tablets and tea, then started back toward Sicily. The going was tougher now; her right arm developed a cramp; she swallowed sea water and vomited. Only her legs kept her going. At last, after...
Landru. The New Wave, which surf-boarded French Moviemaker Claude Chabrol to fame in Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, is receding, and the beach is littered with reels of cinematic flotsam. A fair sample is this Chabrol film based on the macabre amours of Henri Desire Lan dru, a French antique dealer, who whiled away World War I by having affairs with 283 women, only 273 of whom survived...
...sails that left Toulon on May 19, 1798, managed to evade a British squadron under Admiral Nelson in the fog and sailed on to Alexandria undisturbed. With an advance guard of only 5,000 men (out of a total force of 50,000, including sailors), Napoleon landed through the surf on a remote beach and advanced on Alexandria by night with neither cavalry nor artillery. Taking the garrison by surprise, he captured the city with only an estimated 200 casualties...
...lonely public house perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...