Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners into air-raid tunnels, emptied gasoline into the tunnel openings and set them afire. The victims, enveloped in flames and screaming in agony, swarmed from the shelters. As they did, they were bayoneted or machine-gunned. About 40 who threw themselves over a 50-ft. cliff onto a beach were attacked by sentries on the shore. Many, moaning in agony, were buried alive...
...Globemaster. Planemaker Donald Douglas, who once feared he would have to shut up shop when peace came, had done just that with some plants. But he was still in production. Last week, he wheeled out of his Long Beach, Calif., hangar the biggest commercial land plane in the world and gave it a test flight. It is the Globemaster, a military version of the Douglas DC-7, a 77-ton giant in which he expects to carry 108 passengers around the world at 300 m.p.h. with only two necessary stops on the way (see cut). In his pocket he already...
TIME [Aug. 6] refers to Laborite Lieut. General Mason MacFarlane as the "last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...needed was a battery of floodlights, in case the overtaxed Tyson electrical system gave way. Outside the grilled enclosure of the Tyson home uninvited guests danced in the street to the Tyson music. The party ended soon after 6 a.m., with a dawn swim at Bailey's Beach and a gourmet's breakfast...
...distant point. Of the total energy sent out in a radar beam scanning the skies, only a tiny fraction hits the target (e.g., a plane), and a much tinier echo gets back to the receiver. Engineers estimate that if the outgoing energy were represented by the sands of a beach, the returning echo would be just one grain of sand...