Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promptly notify my brown-and white-and yellow-skinned acquaintances along Uturoa beach that until further notice it is taboo for them to see me-unless they want red sparks to fly from my eyes...
More than victory was in the air last week. Poisonously, pervading even the conquerors' exultation, dying Germany's stench hung over Europe. The Nazi Leviathan might be as hard to bury as a whale on a beach. Unless the victors quickly perfected their disposal plans, the carcass would infect the peace...
...sand was deep and the beach rose rather sharply; it would have been difficult to assault under heavy fire. Built into the hillsides were dozens of coral block burial vaults. They are relics of the ancient Chinese culture of the Okinawans rather than of their 70 years of Japanese domination. Neatly kept, the vaults are about 10 by 10 ft. and about 6 ft. high. The vaults have steps inside on which iron or earthen urns were placed. Some of the urns are three feet high, others only half as large. The urns contain the skulls and bones of departed...
Here was no Iwo Jima. On this island, 60 miles long and two to 20 miles wide, there was room to land and maneuver. Jap opposition on the beach was almost nonexistent. Quickly the troops moved inland through a maze of tiny one-and two-acre farms. They spread north and south, pushed eastward. Still resistance remained slight. Some men marched a mile without hearing a shot...
Booth Tarkington, 75-year-old, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and connoisseur of art, who summers at Kennebunkport, Me., attacked the Kennebunkport post office mural, an old WPA project depicting bulgy bathers on a beach. Author Tarkington regarded the work as "painful to Kennebunkport's old timers. Why, Kennebunkport doesn't even have a bathing beach...