Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holding company) still has a larger gross from its small department stores and small-town chains. Gimbel's', solely an operating company, is only in bigger cities, as Manhattan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Gimbel-owned Saks stores are in Manhattan (two stores), Beverly Hills, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach and Palm Peach.There has been no Gimbel-owned store in Vincennes since...
Crowds of Filipinos, some bearing the Stars & Stripes, ran down one sector of the beach and halted the bombardment. The first assault wave landed dry-footed on the steep, grey beach. Not a shot had been fired against them. An hour later, Zero fighter-bombers turned up, but half were shot down...
Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett...
...dawn of the 7th, the 225-mile end run from Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait and up into the Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into...
Less rhetorically, the disbanding H.G.s talked over old times in pubs and clubs: the early days when they drilled with broomsticks, blunderbusses, even pikes and halberds; the later days of spit-&-polish parades, beach and battle maneuvers; the outlandish lessons in stabbing, stunning, strangling; the long, nodding nights of standing guard...