Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also here since July was Lieutenant (jg) Wilbur Irwin. Naval Administration teacher, who reported last week to Miami Beach, Florida, for another teaching assignment...
...Nazis had taken this island rampart of the Balkans in twelve nightmarish days of 1941. Now the Greeks and British pounded the power station at Malemi, where the Nazi padded paratroopers had dropped two years ago. They ripped the radio post at Selino Kastelli, not far from the beach where a German seaborne remnant came through British naval guns. They strafed the roads behind Candia, where exhausted Allied foot soldiers had retreated...
...Miami Herald, on the other hand, advised Schweitzer's dismissal, though expressing respect for his convictions. Terry's co-Legionnaires at the hearing expressed no respect. Florida's ex-Vice Commander Al Lambert wanted "redblooded teachers." Miami Beach Post Chaplain Elmer Warren darkly declared: "Dade County is on trial here...
...American squadrons "to use Guadalcanal for the purpose for which it was taken-as an unsinkable aircraft carrier anchored in the throat of Japan's South Pacific conquests." They learned to know "the groove"-a' long strait down which the Jap Navy escorted its transports to the beach and on whose blue waters lay "a great glitter of sunlight . . . making ships as difficult to spot as pins in a tray of diamonds." On Aug. 24, in the Second Battle for the Solomons, Torpedo 8 went out to revenge Midway...
Like cod into a seine, some 20,000 panting citizens swarm every evening into a converted cyclodrome at Boston's Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...