Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also closed the road which linked Bar Harbor with a bridge to the mainland. At nightfall, with the town all but cut off, with electricity gone and with thick, fire-reddened clouds of smoke whipping everywhere, 2,000 people-mostly women and children-gathered on the town pier. Fishing boats and Coast Guard vessels, some of which were forced to maneuver through the smoke with radar, began taking them aboard. Hundreds crossed to the mainland through heavy, gale-driven seas. Then Army bulldozers opened the road and automobiles began running the fiery gauntlet again...
...this occasion one body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, strung with flowers from bow to stern. While U.S. Thunderbolts from Germany dipped aloft, the Connolly steamed down the Scheldt, its banks lined with thousands of silent...
...bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...
Reasonable Facsimile. In St. John, N.B., five-year-old Richard Irvine fell off a pier, was rescued by his 65-year-old grandmother, who jumped right in after him, then gaspingly explained: "I never thought what I was doing. ... I can't swim...
...almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...