Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Morris Dorrance, Philadelphia's soup-rich (Campbell) facial surgeon, was saved from drowning in a high surf at Palm Beach's Bath & Tennis Club by munitions-rich Lammot du Pont and two naval officers...
...Almost lost everybody on board, almost lost the tank. Higgins' tank lighter came through fine . . . and made the beach and the poor old Bureau tank lighter was out there wallowing around. Captain Cochrane came back this morning and he saw the Chief and everybody else concerned and they sent out-did' you get a copy of the dispatch...
...Miami Beach, Charlie Sorensen called reporters to his winter home. Broad-shouldered, tanned, and looking fit from long afternoons on the sunny beach, he' issued a statement: "I am resigning from the Ford Motor Company after 39 years of continuous service. . . . I am compelled to take a much-needed rest...
...bloodiest beach in U.S. history, and sharp-eyed Bob Sherrod has recreated it in a sharply etched picture. More than that, his book records the simple, human qualities of the fighting Marines. Sherrod watched them give away their last drops of precious drinking water to wounded men, saw them in the thick of battle giving away their last cigarets and bulging out the empty packs so their buddies wouldn't suspect it was the last one. They joked incessantly. In the face of whistling sniper-fire one boyish Marine was seen dashing madly across the beach-he was chasing...
Author Sherrod doesn't try to hush up the plain, stark fear that even Marines may give in to under fire. "Colonel," cried a young major desperately, on the second day, "there are a thousand goddamn Marines out there on that beach, and not one will follow me across to the air strip." Replied the Colonel: "You've got to say, 'Who'll follow me?' And if only ten follow you . . . it's better than nothing...