Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amphtrack, pelted its sides with shrapnel. When we reached the beach another mortar a few yards distant spouted bloodily against the smoky island background, killed one Marine, wounded two others. We had to dig for cover in a ditch because our front lines were only 25 yards inland...
...Germans, captured 15,000 more. When Govorov seized Ainazi, on the Latvian coast, the Germans lost their only rail-served port north of Riga. For two months they had stubbornly clung to an escape corridor at the bottom of the gulf-yet, when the Russians captured the inland rail town of Cesis, they found it had been reinforced by Elite Guard and aviation cadet units from Germany...
...years later, Russia's war front collapsed like a dynamited wall. Most Russian soldiers were peasants and they had heard that inland the peasants were dividing the land. They surged homewards. In Petrograd and Moscow, the Bolsheviks were preparing to seize power. The greatest revolution in history had begun...
September is the hurricane season, and each season produces an average of three. Usually, after traveling northwest toward Florida, hurricanes hit a high-pressure coastal front and veer seaward toward a low-pressure area south of Greenland. But last week's storm, like that in 1938, was funneled inland by the coincidence of a low-pressure front near the Great Lakes. The fiercest hurricane in U.S. history was the 1900 Galveston (Tex.) storm, which killed 6,000. The 1938 storm, still considered the most destructive on record, caused damage estimated...
Some U.S. and French units of the Seventh Army met bitter resistance even after the great ports (Toulon and Marseilles) and inland centers (Toulouse and Aix) had fallen. These units had no illusions that the German collapse was total. Their casualties were destructive of all illusions...