Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven U.S. naval airmen, forced down in the Pacific, paddled their raft for two and a half days, until they reached an island. Down to the beach to welcome them came natives, handed the surprised flyers a book. It was the Bible. For 87 days the friendly Christian natives (converted years ago by missionaries) hid the Americans from Jap patrols. They also, said the airmen, converted them to Christianity. Last week Aerial Gunner Stanley W. Tefft of Toledo told...
...benign old veteran who was drafted at a time when Pearl Harbor was an annex of the beach at Waikiki, I finally find myself in a position where I can reminisce about The Old Army (not to be confused with The Old Old Army, which is the province of first sergeants, or The Old Old Old Army, which is what the grizzled master sergeants' fire talking about when they tell you what they said to First Lieutenant Ike Eisenhower said to them...
...state was like a well-executed Commando raid. Only a few trusted "fifth columnists"-lawyers Mclntyre and David Faries, a brother team who had worked for his election in 1940, and several others-knew that his visit concerned anything more vital than studio business. He did go to the beach home of Darryl Zanuck, Fox production head, for five days of discussion devoted mainly to the script of One World. But Lem Jones, his political secretary, who had accompanied him across the country, took up a position some 15 miles east in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles...
Bacon & Eggs & Turkey. Early one morning Commando Willkie left his beach position alone in a chauffeured Lincoln. Driving through an obscuring fog, he arrived shortly after 8 at the grey-walled University Club in downtown Los Angeles. There David Faries had gathered a hundred business & professional men to join him in bacon & eggs and to hear him talk turkey off-the-record. For 45 minutes, to the obvious satisfaction of virtually everyone present, he talked, answering in gutty, he-man language (hells & damns were not infrequent) the questions inspired by the doubts that California Republicans had expressed about Willkie since...
...theory of design: long range for fighters. In support of ground troops this quality had been proven dramatically only a fortnight before. Without the range built into U.S. single-seaters Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army, which got fighter cover on the beach at Salerno, would have had a tough go of it. Without it, the probability is that the landing would have been made farther south with less decisive effect...