Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rearguard's End. The capture of Randazzo spelled the German rearguard's end. To north and east, along the coastal roads, they fought tenaciously against the U.S. and British forces knifing up the shorelines. But at week's end the remnants were fleeing. On the north coast a second amphibious flanking movement of the Americans cracked their line at Capo d'Orlando and opened up a downhill road to Messina. On the east shore the British pushed up past Riposto, past Taormina, to within artillery range of Italy itself. On neither front was any major contact...
...joint communiqué of the British Admiralty and Air Ministry last week: A force of U-boats estimated to number between 25 and 30 . . . was subjected to such a relentless assault by surface escorts of the Royal Navy and by aircraft of the Coastal Command that the enemy was denied the opportunity to launch even one attack against a large and valuable eastbound convoy...
Forty to 100 years ago, Chinook Jargon (based partly on but not to be confused with the Chinook tribal language) was spoken very extensively by whites and Indians alike throughout the coastal portions of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and southern Alaska. . . . But the Eskimos never spoke Chinook Jargon; those I have asked never even heard of it. The few Jargon words (such as Cheechako) which are familiar to the Eskimos today have been brought to them by their contact with the whites...
These rugged frontiersmen make up one of the most highly specialized groups in the U.S. Army. Their assignments: 1) to explore unknown parts of the Aleutians and the coastal wildernesses of Alaska, with a wary eye for any sign of Japs; 2) to reconnoiter desolate islands and pave the way for landings in force...
...blazing sun popped over the rim of the cloud world. When the coastal rally point was reached, the Forts were arranged in an irregular flying box formation, not unlike the classic battle phalanx. The highest planes were cascading mile-long vapor trails. Over the Channel, the clouds disappeared. Not a boat rippled the Channel's surface. Far out on either side, Spitfires raced along, occasionally tipping their wings to warn the eager fortress gunners not to fire on them...