Word: loch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Landing Party. On the loch below an ancient clansman's castle (which is headquarters), Rangers armed to the teeth paddled toward shore in longboats. From the crags a rifle spat and a pair of Bren guns began a frenetic stutter. Water spurted up alongside the boats. A bullet shattered a paddle blade...
...Rangers were over the side in the icy loch and splashing ashore. Mud-coated from the day's earlier work, they formed in three waves, headed up the hill, one wave advancing while a second fired bullets and mortar shells over their heads at dummy targets, and the third swung wide in a flanking movement...
...Italians remembered, though. They lent a touch of color and realism to one of their famed communiqués by announcing that the monster had been bombed and sunk during an Italian raid on Scotland. To this calumny the monster retorted by merrily roiling, once more, the waters of Loch Ness...
...monster can live forever. Last week it was revealed that two Scottish foresters had found on the shore of the loch a huge dead thing. It was identified by experts as a basking shark, 24 ft. long. This was obviously the Loch Ness Monster, and this was obviously the monster's end. Since there were no signs of injury, it seemed most likely that it had died...
...done for centuries when the master takes a bride. "Be you all of good cheer," said His Lordship. "God bless you, sir, and may your line increase," the tenants cried. And then the Marquess and his Lady left for a honeymoon at His Lordship's country cottage at Loch Luichart in Scotland, and began to live happily ever after...