Word: surfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Girl this was a home game, her turf, and she showed the way, back arching as she plunged into the surf. No beach bunny our Girl, she would never be condemned to sit with the transistor and stuff on the shore while He the Eternal Blond One went on oddysseys. No captain's widow Girl, scanning the sea for sight of his erect from gliding in from time to time. No idle searching long strands pulled forward for split ends, oh no not her. Girl, a surfer-queen herself who went where mortals feared to go, a jolly Loch Nesser...
...force of the 9th Marines splashed ashore at Danang to become the first American ground-combat unit in South Viet Nam. The Communists were threatening to cut the country in two and the South Vietnamese army was collapsing. But that morning, the grunts in green met only rain, surf and a welcoming force of pretty girls. It was a placid preface to one of the bloodiest chapters in Marine Corps history...
That made sense. We hiked two hundred yards back into the American side and stuck out our thumbs at the cars approaching the border station. A VW bus that had been converted into a surf-woodie picked us up after a half-hour wait. We climbed into the back, pulled the curtains, and stiffened up among the surfboards. The driver and his passenger, healthy blond sun-god types, smiled at the American and Mexican guards as they drove past...
...recent months, scented advertisements for such products as Fleischmann's Gin, Gillette's Foamy Surf-Spray Shaving Cream, and Carven Parfums' Ma Griffe have been published in half a dozen magazines. The first newspaper ads using the process will appear this month. Because of extra production costs, a micro-fragrance ad often doubles the ordinary price for advertising. Still, Reach McClinton's Robert Jaffe, an account executive for Ma Griffe perfume, which ran a micro-fragrance ad in four women's magazines, maintains that the impact makes the high cost worthwhile. "You are putting before...