Word: waikikied
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...deranged Japanese youth, Reischauer, who is wise in the ways of the Orient, worried about the loss of face his Japanese hosts would suffer if he returned still looking wan and pallid from the ordeal. So day after day, he manfully stretched out on the beach at Waikiki, acquiring a glowing tan for the worried Japanese, who exhaled gustily when he returned to the job looking properly genki (healthy) once again...
...quick dip. Lieut. General William Westmoreland, the newly designated U.S. military chief in Saigon, gave a virtuoso display on one water ski. During off-hours, Rusk and McNamara relaxed at Felt's flower-decked Makalapa Guest House, while Lodge could be seen sipping coffee in splendid isolation at Waikiki Beach's Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
...three days, after he sprained his ankle while chasing through the woods with Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Une Ravissante Idiote near Paris; Ballplayboy Bo Belinsky, 26, for a day, after breaking his nose in two places when his surfboard rose up and clobbered him off Waikiki...
...valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with foul-smelling flotsam and surrounded by 1,000 acres of swamp. Dillingham's men slashed a two-mile canal through the marshes, and drained the area. It is now called Waikiki Beach...
...facilities in Singapore ($4,800,000). It is involved in a $28 million modernization of Australia's Mount Isa railroad and mines and a $3,500,000 reclamation project in the Philippines. By no means ready to abandon Hawaii, Dillingham is building a $15 million apartment building in Waikiki, a $5,000,000 auditorium and convention center in Honolulu...