Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pants (some of them on the stages of movie houses), beaten and then arrested by the Los Angeles police for "vagrancy" and "rioting." (The police practice was to accompany the caravans in police cars, watch the beatings and then jail the victims. Their orders apparently were to let the Shore Patrol and the Military Police handle the rioting sailors. The service police were futile.) But now the rioting seemed to be diminishing. The zoot-suiters lay low, the sailors and soldiers had seemingly wreaked sufficient revenge for the several occasions when zoot-hoodlums had attacked and robbed them...
...Moves In. That night all Los Angeles stayed downtown to see the fun. When darkness came to the fog-chilled streets, the sidewalks and streets were jammed with expectant servicemen and civilians. Shore Patrol cars, Military Police and police and sheriffs' cars patrolled in force...
...week's end Sun Lien-chung's drive from the south had taken Kungan, the main Japanese forward base, recovered Nanhsien and Nanhsian on the northern shore of Tungting Lake and was forging on to the river. Chen Cheng had driven to the south bank within sight of Ichang, and eliminated the last Japanese ferry head...
...Wrote Russel G. Idle of Collinsville, Ill.: "I live with my family in the central part of the U.S.A. near the east shore of the great river, the Mississippi. ... I am healthy, hardened, lean and tough (I hope). I work on live electric wires from no volts to 66 kilovolts. . . . Most of us laboring people have confidence in you. We think you are a fair and helping ally, or what we call 'square shooters.' We feel you are nearest like us, than any other people...
...Francisco's sailors seethed with indignation; shore leave had been curtailed by Navy order. The Treasure Island station burst into verse with an ode beginning...