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Word: surfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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Back in Palm Beach, Jack Kennedy busied himself with some thick reports on the state of the nation and the world, received a parade of guests, and relaxed in the sun and the surf when he found the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Flying High | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...statement about Gabriele D'Annunzio is an understatement. Poets these days tend to be an almost muted species haunted by the dread that they may be understood by nonpractitioners of their private art. They do not. as did D'Annunzio. ride naked on horseback into the surf and don a purple cloak as a bathrobe, or drink wine from a virgin's skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet in Purple | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...where mobs of merchant "mammies" screamed "Akwaaba" (welcome) and jovially spread bright kente cloth on the streets for the Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: Welcoming the Guests | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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