Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis a sarong. Other natives ignored the Japanese fire, plied the Marines with coconuts and coconut juice, told them where the Japs were concentrated. Three times during the day Jap bombers came over, did more harm to their own forces than to the Marines. U.S. machine-gunners on the shore destroyed two planes which landed in Makin's still lagoon...
...transports. Allied fighter planes lugging small bombs spotted them, strafed their transports and sank a gunboat. But under a screen of low-lying clouds and a tropical downpour, they ducked into the ten-mile-wide mouth of Milne Bay, launched barges and poured out on the swamp-fringed shore...
...Dining Hall will be decorated with flags and colored spot lights and filled with the music of Ross's orchestra, which has played often on the North Shore. There are rumors that Hildegrade or Glenn Miller, will be visitors for intermission entertainment. soft drinks and other refreshments will be served throughout the evening...
...moss, exposed sheer blue ice. Sun-melted ice sucked down the roadway. The engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang the marching song of the road: Squaws along the Yukon Are Good Enough...
Swimming vigorously to escape the whirling propellers, the Harvard oarsman barely missed mincing, but his shell was split in half by the impact, and the parts only brought to shore with difficulty. The entire accident happened so quickly that passengers were at first unaware of the disaster, until the shouts of onlookers and the shattered wreckage drew their attention to the collision...