Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bitterest Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
...terrorists got part of their arms ashore at Kfar Vitkin. But in the fight they lost six killed, 20 wounded, while Haganah suffered two dead, three wounded. Beigin boarded the ship, ordered it southward. At midnight the Altalena rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam...
...Dorothy Lawlor, still willing to marry for $10,000 if things were right, flew in to La Guardia Field from Ciudad Trujillo, where she had been looking over one Albert Alna as a suitor. She had definitely crossed off Danny Wicker, Daytona Beach, Fla. bar owner. "We're both of too nervous a temperament to make a go of it," she explained. Though still unwed and unbespoken, Mrs. Lawlor had quit work as a hatcheck girl. "After all, there's nothing to check in the summer," she said...
...Boston's Symphony Hall last week, President Karl T. Compton paused in his earnest degree-dispensing and beamed delightedly as Graduate Jules Samuel Levin stepped forward. Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)- the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum...
...Great Worry." Skipper Davies of the shallow-draught paddle-minesweeper Oriole was a typical example. On arriving at Dunkirk, he saw instantly that his best bet was to run Oriole full-tilt right on to the beach, so that the soldiers might use her as a gangway to the numerous ships that could not enter shallow water. In one day, 3,000 men walked to safety over Oriole; and Skipper Davies, having proved his hunch, radioed defiantly to the Admiralty: "[Have] deliberately grounded ... on own initiative . . . Refloated dusk same day . . . Am again proceeding Belgian coast and will again run aground...