Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacksonville Beach...
...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
Clipped Bond. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested for writing checks without the money to cover them, Robert E. Bennett was jailed after remarking, as the court fixed his bond at $1,000, "Can I give you a check for the bail, judge...
...Pasadena. Calif., the evening Star-News (circ. 41,120) and the morning Independent (circ. 35,588). Reported total cost: $4,500,000. That made six California newspapers picked up by the Ridders in 3½ years, giving them a monopoly not only in Pasadena but also in Long Beach and San Jose-all fast-growing areas...
...arising in the Middle East and in North Africa. There was uneasiness in a number of the world's capitals about whether Dulles' State Department was organized and administered well enough to meet those problems as they should be met. A photograph of Dulles lying on a beach in Ceylon when there was highly disturbing news on the shores of the Mediterranean was splashed five columns across the front page of a London newspaper under the caption U.S. HEAVYWEIGHT...