Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that it has not always been as you see it today. How did that cliff, harbor, beach, island, or mountain come to be as you see it today? How did it get that...
Outside of Manhattan's sweaty "Jacobs Beach," shrine of U.S. fisticuffs, the boxingest place in the U.S. is probably Camp Butner, near Durham, N.C. There every soldier boxes as a regular part of his physical training...
Sued for Divorce. By Elizabeth Hicks Newell, 22, pint-sized, long-driving 1941 women's national amateur golf champion, now a professional: Oklahoma aircraft executive Frank Newell, 27; in Long Beach, Calif...
...these men lost weight and none of them were pudgy when they landed on the beach. Weight losses in muscular, toughened young adults ran as high as 45 lb. Rain, heat, insects, dysentery, malaria all contributed-but the end result was not bloodstream infection nor gastrointestinal disease, but a disturbance of the whole organism, a disorder of thinking and living, of even wanting to live...
...Fear of all kinds had to enter into the causative picture. Most men experienced fear as they approached the beach. Some tell you of their fear of being afraid and of feeling relief and exhilaration as soon as they went into actual combat. But new attacks, new near bomb hits would relight sudden fear. . . . As the weeks passed, hope left most of these men. . . . Soon they were sure that . . . they were expendable, doomed. . . . Fatigue wore them down, painful aching fatigue that they felt could never be relieved or cured...