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Word: coastguardsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

They ran to a Coast Guard base, panted out their story. Coastguardsmen followed them to the tent. This time it was guarded by a husky teen-aged German-talking youth, who charged at "Neddie" Collins with a bayonet, ran smack into a Coast Guard fist. As Neddie and his pal watched wide-eyed. Guardsmen hauled away spy and radio-a two-way, short-wave station complete with hidden aerial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: War's Youngest | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...than that in a single day last week. At Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen who set out to aid a damaged lumber schooner off Fort Bragg soon needed help themselves. They lashed their two small boats together, rode out 40-foot waves in rain and fog for 40 hours before they were rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: West Coast Blow | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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