Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a stiff breeze, and the blue Mediterranean waves wore little white hats. A seaman on the deck of a destroyer looked at those waves and at the shore of Tunisia beyond, and said: "I've been in three evacuations-Norway, France and Crete. I'm glad...
...Record. Thus last week the Royal Navy ended its great contribution to the Tunisian campaign. If its men, so bitterly familiar with evacuations, were a little disappointed that Jerry and Eyetie collapsed for the most part on shore and did not try to evacuate in mass, their disappointment was nevertheless tempered by anticipation of future action...
...Service last week published a chatty, pocket-size book to be distributed by the American Red Cross. Its title: Science from Shipboard. Its purpose: to answer the questions that landlubbers debate at sea-waves and wind, stars and navigation, time and the calendar, sea life, oceanic birds, islands and shore lines, seasickness and homesickness, exposure and thirst...
...ruthlessly across academic boundaries between the sciences, starts each topic with a direct human experience. Sample (by Harvard's Mather): "Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that it has not always been as you see it today. How did that cliff, harbor, beach, island, or mountain come to be as you see it today? How did it get that...
...LIGHTS AROUND THE SHORE-Jerome Weldman-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Youthful, attractive Aunt Fini had immigrated to New York from Hungary, had worked industriously for six years, hoarding her money, confiding no secrets. When she went back to Europe in the summer of 1939 she was supposed to be going to see her old parents. But Peter, the 15-year-old American nephew who accompanied her, was bewildered by her brusque, preoccupied behavior, soon found there was a man in the story, and learned enough of life to leave adolescence behind him forever. Touching as a study of a growing youth...