Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week watchers on Britain's south and east headlands scarcely needed to look up to identify skein after skein of German aircraft which, from bases in Nazified France, swept over the Channel and swooped upon British shipping or soared on over Britain to bomb inland objectives. So experienced had many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke...
...establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland to conquer England. And thrice since then this coast has been seriously threatened by an invading army...
...leading beneficiary of Franklin Roosevelt's five-year-old naval and merchant marine construction boom. To holders of other capital-goods securities, landlocked by heavy arrearages, New York Ship's performance was a pleasant omen of what they may expect when National Defense moves inland...
...scientists. The hope of China's survival lay in such trained men. In that first summer of the war, China's Education Ministry secretly sent students to Tientsin, Peking, other university centres, through them transmitted instructions to the nation's undergraduates. Some were to gather inland at Changsha, others were to filter through enemy lines to Sian. Thousands of students gathered at these rendezvous, made shift to study while they awaited further orders. In the spring of 1938 the orders came. Then began one of history's strangest migrations-an orderly retreat of China...
...when Dr. Albertus Christiaan van Raalte, reformer of the Dutch Reformed Church, was looking for a likely settling place, he picked the flat country near the east shore of Lake Michigan, founded the town of Holland. When hard times later hit Pastor van Raalte's flock, it moved inland to neighboring Grand Rapids, where its members' woodcarving talents found jobs in the rising furniture industry. Today, of Grand Rapids' 168,000 inhabitants, from a quarter to a third are of Dutch descent...