Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liner as it docked, held all passengers for intensive grilling. Passengers complained noisily, and friends on shore joined in. But the grilling broke down "Refugee" Bahr: he admitted that he had been sent to the U.S. as a spy. He had invisible ink with him, and addresses in Switzerland, Spain and South America to which he was to send information. He had memorized a story to explain the $7,000 in his pockets: a Jewish woman, whose husband had been beheaded, had sold his stamp collection, had given Bahr the money to take...
...Admiral Hipper and pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
...along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases used three centuries ago by Caribbean buccaneers...
With a view toward these mixed swimming groups, authorities have no doubt that the record crowd of 1200 which flooded the Athletic Building on July 2 will soon be surpassed, and that the North Shore will dwindle into secondary importance as a swimming resort...
Dead Birds. Even so, the list of dead pigeons already includes such famous summer theaters as the Lakewood at Skowhegan, Me. (the oldest in the East, having run continuously for 41 years); the Spa at Saratoga Springs; the South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass.; the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Mass.; The Lost Colony pageant at Roanoke Island, N.C. (which played to almost 500,000 people in five years) ; the annual Play Festival at Central City, Colo...