Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parking lots were leased for instruction centers. Qualified officers said it would take at least three months to set up an officers' candidate school, but "Hitler would not wait" that long. A conference was held on a Wednesday; the first classes were held, in leased hotels in Miami Beach, the following Monday...
...last week most of the old crowd were already there. Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, the Joseph P. Kennedys, the Sumner Welleses, were at Palm Beach. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, with Mrs. Hague and daughter Peggy Anne, checked in at Miami Beach. So did the small-fry tourists, the race-track touts, the racketeers both gross and petty. The sub-urbane Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season...
Farthest north was Stockholm Correspondent John Scott, who planned to spend Christmas Day skiing with 70 interned American airmen near Falun in central Sweden. But Hart Preston was looking forward to beating the heat of Christmas in Rio with a day at the beach...
...Britain's western tip. Early in the morning after Christmas, naval guns pummeled the dim Jap shore, waves of Army Liberators and Mitchells raked the enemy's defenses, laid a screen of TIME, JANUARY 3, 1944 smoke bombs. Minutes later the first landing barge hit the beach. Out spilled U.S. Marines, tough veterans of Guadalcanal, under the command of Major General William H. Rupertus...
...unloaded on the beach...