Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a wave running up a beach, the sweeping force of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's thrust toward Tobruk had by last week slowed, thinned, sunk into the sand. What worried the British was how far the next wave might...
Last Straw. In Miami Beach, a woman sued for divorce on the ground that her husband was "interested chiefly in wine, women, song and slow horses...
...that made Yardlings George R. Hooper and John M. Alcorn dance gleefully into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic at Revere Beach. They won the bet, but admit ruefully that they are not forming any "Polar Bear Club." "Once is enough," the two Weld Hall dwellers, to whom temperatures in the lower registers are nothing new, chorused in shivering unison...
...Whidby Island in Puget Sound, the farmers' beach patrol was on watch, night after night, regardless of Senatorial questions and military reverses, with "an eye to the sky and an ear to the ground." The volunteer harbor patrol at Seattle, run by the man who was once the fastest tap dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare...
Married. Cinemactor George Brent, 37; and Cinemactress Ann Sheridan, 26; he for the third time; in Palm Beach...