Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, out on bond, the strikers returned. Boomed union president Paul Silver: "We will picket employers where we find them-at their plants, their homes, or on their Miami Beach vacations." But the police came back...
Trigger Man. Meursault, the central character in the story, is a clerk. He lives in Algiers (where Camus himself was born). One day, on a beach just outside the city, he murders a man, for no particular reason. He is arrested and sentenced to die on the guillotine...
...mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood three terrible counterattacks and killed more than 500 Japs...
...amendments to the Price Control Act would merely strangle the OPA slowly rather than end it with one clean knife thrust. Conspicuous spending in Miami Beach bistros and metropolitan race tracks make good reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame...
...World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences on Utah Beach and beyond. The rest is largely impressions of and reactions to British motives and bad manners, pointed up with notes on high headquarters life and praise for General Omar N. Bradley...