Word: surfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright Sunday morning, and the beach was thronged with sun-roasters, surf-coasters, bikini-oglers and juvenile sand-throwers. Suddenly a wild-looking man garbed like an Old Testament prophet loped across the sand and hurled himself into the waves. Loungers looked up, transistor-radio earplugs popped out of ears. Again and again the man plunged into the sea, and a crowd began to gather. Before people knew what had happened, they were listening to the dripping prophet tell the story of Naaman the leper, who threw himself seven times into the River Jordan and was miraculously healed...
...describe the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects," and has been described as "a confusion of actual meteorological conditions with the weather in the soul." Any moviegoer or TV watcher-dimly aware that acts of love seem to occur in the presence of windblown oatfields or sexily curling surf, and that crises seldom take place without timpani and brass on the sound track-is the plaything of the pathetic fallacy...
...stop the Russian airlifts. The one shred of legality to which the Russians cling is that the supplies were requested by the neutralist government of Premier Souvanna Phouma, who was put in power by Kong Le and is still recognized by the Russians, though he is now surf-bathing in comfortable exile in Cambodia. To end this charade, the U.S. flew National Assembly members to Vientiane from all over Laos last week to vote the Boun Oum government into office. All 41 legislators voted approval (the rest of the 59-man Assembly could not be found). King Savang Vatthana gathered...
...University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate with a thesis on the physics of hearing. With his trusty, ever-present sound-level meter, Knudsen tours the world, makes surprising discoveries. He once measured a noise level of 90 decibels* at a U.C.L.A. faculty tea. In the surf at Santa Monica, he registered a 3-ft. breaker at 80 decibels from a distance of 50 ft., and noted that the high-pitched, cracking noise made by shrimp often climbed to 90 decibels. He unromantically recorded a measurement of 92 decibels on the trail near the bottom of Niagara Falls...
Back in Palm Beach, Jack Kennedy busied himself with some thick reports on the state of the nation and the world, received a parade of guests, and relaxed in the sun and the surf when he found the time...