Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman with the lovely face is screaming. Her dark eyes are luminous with horror. She seems to be hanging perilously to the very edge of a cliff, while far below is a dizzying view of the pounding ocean. Somebody is trying to push...
...ocean traffic with the world began to move haltingly this week after a paralysis which had gripped both coasts. The West Coast tie-up was being unknotted. The East Coast strike was over...
...statuary. When the U.S. captured the island empire of the Japanese, it took possession of a region which was almost unknown scientifically. Many of the islands have birds, animals and plants that are found nowhere else; some of them may prove useful to the rest of the world. The ocean around the islands teems with fish which might be a valuable addition to the world's food supply...
...feet off the southernmost tip of the continental U.S;, the President splashed in the Atlantic Ocean and smiled at the tropical sky. Using his head-up sidestroke, he wore his glasses, as usual. Once a wave dashed them off his face. To his happy surprise, a Secret Service agent later recovered them as they were washed ashore...
...With a Message. One of Rose's best yarns is about Jimmy Durante on a fishing trip. Durante was awakened at 3 a.m. to drive out to the ocean. "On the way to the garage, I noticed he was smacking every tree he passed. 'When I'm awake,' Schnozzola explained, 'no boid sleeps...