Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attack on the Beach. While Ike Eisenhower caught his brief nap, war broke loose on the southeastern shores of Sicily. First a blistering wave of air power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...
...married Eunice McIntyre, whom he had met during his Australian prospecting days. They built a modern palace on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, bought show places at Bar Harbor and Palm Beach, a house in London and a shooting box in Sussex. There were five children. Their 18-year-old daughter Nancy eloped last year with Alfred de Marigny, a slick weekend guest. Sir Harry did not approve...
...Misremembered as the overweening king who got his feet wet by planting his throne on the beach and ordering the tide not to come in. Actually canute, fed up with lickspittle flattery, was making a mock of his courtiers...
...them out of the mist. They were flying blind and praying that they would see the islands in time. When Lawson decided to climb and fly in on instruments and then jump (it meant losing the plane), they ran into a hole in the weather, saw a clean, concave beach. Lawson dropped low, dragged the beach, inspecting it for logs. It was all right. Co-Pilot Davenport called off the airspeed. Suddenly both engines coughed. They were a quarter-mile offshore when they...
...Navy named Henry Kaiser board chairman in March, and in the same move shoehorned into the president's chair fat, ponderous Fred Riebel Jr., 61, onetime football guard (Purdue), bicyclist, weightlifter. Riebel had spent an engineering career at Westinghouse, the Hamilton-Beach division of Scovill Manufacturing Co., and Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. A vice president, he retired in 1936 to devote all his time to deep-sea fishing...