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Word: surfed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real California girl (San Francisco-born), but apparently your reporter didn't notice me because I don't drink orange juice (gives me hives), I don't bake in "the sun (gives me heat rash and sunburn) and I don't surf or ski (dangerous...

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

...benefit from the proceeds. Then a task force of 60 volunteers labored for nearly a month over treacherous 80-ft. cliffs. They knotted and secured ropes, sewed the fabric together, and operated the 20 ramset guns used to fire staples into the rock face. The sound of the pounding surf below barred direct communication among the workers, so two-way radios were used. Midway through the project, a gale-force wind ripped up much of the work, necessitating repairs and alterations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artists: Wrap-ln Down Under | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Surf's up!" The cry is universal, both exultation and invitation. It echoes through the meccas of surfdom like a call to battle, from Mar del Plata to Makaha, from Sydney to Tempe, Ariz. Tempe, Ariz.? Surfing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Making Waves | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...Tempe's just opened "Big Surf," the nearest ocean is 350 miles away, the sand beach was trucked in from Phoenix, and the waves are manmade. Yet beyond any doubt, surfing it is. Every 40 seconds, a new wave cascades from one end of the 2½ acre lagoon, carrying as many as 30 boards and bodies on waves up to five feet high. "You don't have to wait for that big one to come along," says Hawaii's Surfing Champion Fred Hemmings Jr., head instructor at the facility. "The surf is always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Making Waves | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...more relaxed and assured-looking figure than the leather-jacketed, unkempt Dylan of old. The hair, once long and wild, was now relatively short. A wispy mustache and thin beard had been added. When he came on, he was greeted by applause that sounded like the roar of surf from the nearby Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poet's Return: It's What I Do | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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