Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beating to windward in a black night of rain squalls rolling up from the southeast, the vanguard of the 21st biennial Newport-to-Bermuda yacht race boiled past the finish line off St. David's Head in a swirl of windy confusion. Busy skippers forgot to flash their sail numbers in code to the race committee, and their boats slid by in the gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session...
...Florence on a ceremonial visit, and the city's church bells tolled all day. Three years abuilding, the Ponte Santa Trinita was formally inaugurated. The head of the statue of Spring was missing (some Florentines claim an Allied soldier took it), but Florentines contentedly examined the swirl of water under the arches and pronounced it just the same. To those who objected that "after all, the bridge is only a full-scale model of the original," Gizdulich replied: "Even though orchestras are not the same as they were then, we still play the works of Beethoven. I think...
...success that one never notices. The irrepressible Fernandel plays a harrassed husband who feels that his real calling is women's fashions. One of his extra-curricular conquests leaves him the controlling interest in a fashion house that is on the skids, and amidst great swish and swirl our hero conquers the world of fashion. And with the usual amorous byplay, all comes out well...
...breakfast with his economist wife in their modest, government-owned home on the Venusburg overlooking Bonn. Heading for his Bonn headquarters, he dictates speeches as he rides, often stops off at a local market to check prices personally. As the Mercedes 300 lurches up to the entrance in a swirl of dust, his driver tries to get out and open the door. But Erhard is already out, Homburg in hand and cigar in mouth, charging toward the ministry entrance like a soccer forward. He waves jovially to the doorkeeper, fairly skips up the steps and down the long hall...
...going to swim over to that next island and try to hail one of our patrols," he said. From then until show's end, day and night, Shafty swam and swam and swam; the camera caught him barechested, fighting currents, rolling almost unconscious in the swirl, negotiating dangerous reefs, coughing, stumbling through the underbrush. "Let me tell you," says Crewman Maguire, "there's a guy." Soon some friendly natives were smuggling Shafty to safety and a rescue team. After a few more dips, the whole crew climbed aboard a U.S. PT boat, uncorked a "medicinal" bottle of hooch...