Word: bay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondent after another listed his wartime specialty (tanks, machine guns, field artillery, radar, naval aircraft, naval landing craft, aerial navigation, radio, military laws, etc.) and the places he could be counted on for a "local knowledge" of: Berlin (occupied), Normandy ("especially the beachhead"), Bizerte, Hollandia, Mindoro, Samar-Leyte Bay, Cassino...
...local fire department troubled about the Grandcamp. But as the smoke rolled blacker, some 200 people gathered at the dock to watch. By 9 a.m., the fire fighters, who knew something about the explosive fury of nitrate, figured they had better move the ship out into Galveston Bay. Twelve minutes later it was too late...
Outside was chaos and the incongruities inseparable from disaster. A terrier bitch whelped beside a dazed crowd at the foot of the memorial to Texas City's World War II dead. A Negro, suffering from concussion after being blown off the dock into the bay, swam back, walked to his blasted home, started patching it with hammer and nails. One man emerged from the rubble of the Texas Terminal Railway Building carrying $10 million in insurance policies in a bedsheet. He turned them over to the police. After dark, the inevitable looters worked the ruins...
...other settlement poses such problems for the council. Most are minute colonies which shift with the fox population (which in turn shifts with the migrations of lemmings, on which foxes feed).* All are satellites of the Hudson's Bay Company's 42 trading posts...
Kentuckians were more worried about C. V. Whitney's Virginia-bred Phalanx, a flop-eared bay with a peculiar hobbyhorse stride. Nobody had heard much about him last year until the two-year-olds began to go a distance of ground; then Phalanx showed a liking for the sport. Says Trainer Sylvester Veitch: "He's not hard to handle, but he'd just as soon step on you as not." Smart but rather overbearing, Phalanx is built-to-order for the rough, mile-and-a-quarter Derby grind. He isn't fussy whether the track...