Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freighter was so close inshore that the torpedo's explosion could be seen quite clearly from the beach, and crowds streamed out to watch as she heeled over under a rain of shells. In the glow of the town's lights, which were not blacked out for 40 minutes, amateur lifesavers put out in rowboats to help the Navy patrols save 29 of the 48 sailors aboard. Not since the U-156 appeared off the coast of Cape Cod in World War I and smacked a few shells at Orleans had U.S. citizens seen a pigboat in action...
...severe has been Lord Beaverbrook's asthma since he arrived in the U.S. last month that he has not been able to apply his genius to Anglo-American production. Instead, wearing only blue shorts and a black Homburg, he has been sunning himself at Miami Beach, Fla. Said he: "It is true that I suffer from both temperament and asthma but the asthma is a damn sight worse than the temperament...
...Beaver hopped to Nassau to visit the Duke of Windsor and other friends. At dinner one night he broke a tooth on a chicken bone, went to the island's most expensive dentist to have it replaced. At week's end the Beaver returned to Miami Beach, gnawed more chicken bones, broke his new tooth...
After a dog fight with 14 Jap planes, Lieut. Clarence Sandford had been forced down for lack of gas and had stripped off his clothes and swum three miles to shore, where he collapsed. When he came to, on the beach of Bremer Island, north of Australia, two black aborigines with spears upraised were standing over...
...brilliant set piece, Romains leads him into the deafening shadows of Manhattan's Chatham Square, for an infernal glimpse of the U.S. "Middle Ages." Later, in "the hypnotic rhythm" of a Parkway drive to Jones Beach, they move on a road so magnificently designed that it makes a car "an instrument capable of making a landscape sing"; among many other cars in "an incredibly vast dance," as if some all-but-cosmic power had caught a whole race into planetary motion...