Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny Broome (pop. 750) in western Australia, there is a Japanese cemetery. In it rest Japanese divers who went to Australia's pearling grounds, dove to depths no white man would attempt, and died at their labors. Australians knew that Japanese divers, shore laborers and fishermen for years had done other chores as well: they had minutely mapped the northern coasts, sent back home better charts than any in Sydney or Melbourne...
...other invasion blow, the Japs could grab all they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have on the Queensland coast...
...account for a great deal. Winchell admitted that his opinion of Cissie is partly unprintable. According to a Washington story, she has said: "There isn't a night goes by that I don't get down on my knees and pray that they take the off shore duty and put him on a destroyer that will sink...
...ultimate. . . . I know that some of our traditions and institutions may perish in resisting this subversion of the mind, but all will surely perish if no resistance is made. That is the choice we have." In this mood Tomlinson sees nothing "unreasonable, therefore, in the substitution on the shore below of endless coils of barbed wire for the children who were there last year." He likes the thought that, should invaders ever reach that beach, they will be met by "a very horrible great blast of fire from all the tussocks of grass above...
...When three torpedoes in 50 seconds finished off the Norwegian freighter Blink, 23 men got into a power-driven lifeboat. Only six reached shore alive. The first night they dragged a sea anchor, hoping to stay within sight of other survivors. In the morning none was visible and they tried to start the engine. It balked. They raised a sail; a gust of wind upset the boat and they lost all food, all drinking water, the oars and one man. They righted the boat and got back...