Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jungle Story. Unpredictable as ever, the defenders chose to abandon their excellent beach defenses and pull back to the hills. Troops quickly worked up toward the dense undergrowth where the first Japanese opposition began. Then the battle steadied down to the usual drudging Southwest Pacific jungle fight, with the Aussies working diligently to erase each individual Jap. At some points the advance was slowed by electrically-controlled Jap minefields. But by this week the Aussies had reached the town of Tarakan and captured the island airfield two miles away...
...little Cub plane with Lieut. Colonel Thomas W. Casey as observer strayed a bit and came down on a strange beach...
Divorced. By Ailsa Mellon Bruce, fortyish, shy, only daughter of the late multimillionaire Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: Colonel David K. E. Bruce, 47, handsome socialite; after 19 years of marriage; in Palm Beach...
Some of the boys decided to take the Dean's suggestion to the faculty about taking a week's vacation before the summer started. The recent outburst of summer sun (followed by the weekend's icy blasts, fellow rebels), brought out the "beach boy" complex in some of the unit. Henry J. Shellar (the Bruin) was seen sunning his tremendous torso last week. Max (the Operator) Richards looms also as a tan seeker...
...bird-cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...