Word: seaward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mindanao and last large Philippine city in Japanese hands, after one of the toughest marches in Pacific annals-more than 140 miles in 17 days from the Parang landing beach. They found most of the Japanese army gone, the elaborate defenses abandoned. All the wicked-looking pillboxes had faced seaward-the wrong...
...Westkapelle, on the island's seaward face, the Germans had been gunned up for invasion since last spring. The British, who had the job to do and knew it would be bloody, tried to soften up the objective. Mosquito bombers peppered Westkapelle the night before the attack. Next morning the battleship Warspite (15-inch guns) and two monitors stood offshore and poured shells into the German positions. The Allies had assembled 200 assault craft, some of them heavily armed with guns and rockets. The LCIs were packed with Royal Marine Commandos...
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...
Does not my Thames between his seaward banks Flow all the prouder this September...
Thursday broke with a heavy overcast, darkened in patches by rain squalls. The sun tried to pierce the vapors, and a rainbow appeared. At the end of the rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...