Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph you print is a spine chiller. It chilled mine when I first saw the original, and I went into it as I would into the water at a Maine beach. But everything is relative. ... I saw no "callousness." The contact was always human, if not necessarily "humane. . . ." "Nursing methods are not standardized." Neither are complexes, fixations, psychoses, nor the outside world...
...Barracuda dive bombers and the fighters went up. Off Bodö in northern Norway, through wind-tossed snow and rain, they sighted a German convoy - four merchantmen and five escorts. The British attacked. They hit all nine ships, set fires on several, sent one to the beach and one, they believed, to the bottom...
...Guinea, last September, U.S. invading forces ran into heavy fire, pressed on. Near the beach, the helmsman of LST 473 spotted a torpedo coming head on. Before he could make a move, a bomb struck the pilothouse and blasted him out of action...
...favorite project was New York City's famed, misnamed Brooklyn resort, Manhattan Beach. He poured some $8,000,000 into turning it into the city's greatest "middleclass Coney Island." He liked to tell his children that it would some day be the heart of Day properties worth perhaps $100,000,000. That dream died with World War II: early in 1942, Joe Day sold Manhattan Beach to the Coast Guard (as a training center) for a mere $6,000,000. But, although his estate was modestly valued in the Surrogate's Court last week at "more...
Bonnie A. Little was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time of his death, although his new commission had not caught up with him. Eyewitness accounts relayed back to his home in Geneva tell how Captain Little led his platoon of amphibious tractors onto the beach in the first assault wave. All men in his tractor were killed except him before the landing was made. Singlehanded, Little pushed on to wipe out a Japanese machine-gun position before he was fatally wounded...