Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slows down to take aboard tables, charts and technical details. More informal books-e.g., Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone to smash...
Twenty-three-year-old Moravec, who hails from West Bridgewater, Pa., holds the Purple Heart for wounds received in a Naval encounter at Anzio Beach. He studied at Lehigh University before entering the service...
...Palm Beach, the Duke of Windsor made a remark that might just possibly foreshadow the biggest literary event since Forever Amber. He was thinking, said he, of writing his autobiography. But it might take a while: "I use the hunt-&-peck system of typing...
...trouble started early last month. Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling (an ex-Government Wildlife man) found the beach near his Captiva home strewn with dead fish. More were floating offshore, belly-up, and the water was heavily laced with sickly yellow-green streaks...
...affairs: "I'm just awful tired and confused. The people I thought were for me, were against me. I'm 60 and if I ever do another stroke of work in my life I'm a sucker. I'm going to lie on a beach and not even think, and just be a mollusk." It was hard for Philadelphia to believe that Stern could ever take it easy. Some guessed that he and his son, David III, publisher of the Camden papers, would take their money (around $10 million, less $5½ million in debts...