Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...beach: "Get over the effects [of drinking] as quickly as possible. Take plenty of fluids, a good diet and give yourself three yeast tablets three times...
From the Navy's landing-vessel program has come a motley lot of odd, ugly but effective craft for beach assault. The LSM is the last of eleven basic designs (15 types). The rest of the roster...
Died. Jules Semon Bache, 82, art-collecting, art-bestowing Manhattan banker and broker; after a brief illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. The monocled, well-preserved bon vivant took over his uncle's Wall Street firm in 1892, swelled it to 42 offices, 800 employes. He became one of the greatest patrons of pre-19th-Century art, in 1937 turned over to New York his Fifth Avenue mansion, with its choice, more-than-$12,000,000 assortment of canvases, from 18th-Century Giovanni Bellini to 18th-Century Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...Roundy was pushing a lawnmower in Madison's Brittingham Park (he had quit school in the fifth grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal hired Roundy as a daily columnist in 1924, and let his murderous English go unarrested...