Word: undertows
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...anyone else at the time saw reason to question the official verdict: "Death by accidental drowning." Wilma, the police reasoned, had gone to Ostia in the gloomy April off-season to bathe her eczema-infected foot in salt water; she had then been caught in a treacherous undertow and carried beyond her depth. Her family buried her-a service with banks of flowers, the clop-clop of horses pulling the black hearse, the family following on foot, weeping. Then her death was forgotten by all but family and friends...
...first eight months as President Dwight Eisenhower rode the crest of the great wave that swept him into the White House. In early September, his personal popularity was higher than it had ever been. Then, quite subtly, the inevitable undertow set in. This week it was clear that the Eisenhower Administration was caught in its first popularity riptide...
...Express and the Liberal Manchester Guardian, which find few issues to agree upon, both agreed that the regency should be kept "in the line of succession" rather than pass to one who is not in the line, i.e., Princess Margaret should have the regency. There was also a deep undertow of nervousness and grumbling in the starchy back benches of the Tory Party, whose men are properly silent in public and often violently articulate in private. Though the handsome and gregarious Philip takes his job seriously and is increasingly popular with the British public, he is not universally beloved...
...start out a sourpuss. At the age of 15, Bento's head is full of great but nebulous expectations: "After Napoleon, lieutenant and emperor, all destinies are possible in this century." His heart throbs for Capitu, a dark-haired Juliet with "eyes like the tide when the undertow is strong." Bento's mother had dedicated him to the church at birth, but the seminary is not for Bento. He wins his release along with a seminarist friend named Ezekiel, and goes off to law school. Then he comes home to win the hand of Capitu...
...sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach." The watches found on the dead had stopped at a quarter past nine...