Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merely Phraseology." Next night Illinois' able Representative Everett M. Dirksen spoke in Old Orchard Beach, Me. He too had been offered a Manhattan factory-made speech, which arrived just two hours before he was to broadcast. The speech accused Franklin Roosevelt of seeking the Presidency "under false pretenses," and said that Governor Dewey would make a speech this week "and you'd better listen to what he has to say." As Dirksen sat on the platform waiting to speak, he hurriedly crossed out the strongest sections. Two days later his speech was the subject of debate in Congress...
Graves. To the west, the British and Canadians were on traditional ground. There was only a skirmish near the graves of Canadians who had stormed the beach at Dieppe in August 1942. British tanks clanked over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud...
G.I.s returning from overseas duty began arriving at 35 hotels in Miami Beach, three others in Santa Barbara, Calif. Within a fortnight, others in Asheville, N.C., Lake Placid, N.Y. and Hot Springs, Ark. will be opened. (Total capacity: 17,-ooo-less than 1% of Army Ground Force and Service Force troops now overseas...
...like something G.I. Joe had dreamed of but never expected to realize. One veteran of Italian foxholes complained that he could not sleep-the Miami Beach beds were too soft. There were badminton, tennis, golf, shuffleboard, but most soldiers preferred to loaf in the sun. Wives could be brought along for a mere...
...hardest facts confronting Joe and his War Department are these: Joe is still needed overseas but Joe simply does not like to fight. In several representative groups interviewed last week at Miami Beach and Santa Barbara, not a man was found who wanted to return to combat: "If I had wanted to fight I'd have joined the Marines...