Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Shore. Java's long, open northern shore along the Java Sea has no "logical points of attack." It is all vulnerable, replete with accessible ports and easy landing places. Admiral Helfrich's task was now to defend that shore by keeping the Japs away from...
Plans for the escape were made on a Thursday: the grim little group of officers had agreed that Singapore could not hold. On the Sunday of Singapore's collapse, an aide-de-camp swam out to a Chinese sampan and sculled it back to shore. Aboard went the officers, headed by Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, Commander of the Australian Imperial Forces in Malaya. After nightfall the sampan slipped out of the harbor...
Warmly bundled up against the winter wind, an amateur ornithologist snooped around the shore line of Long Island last week to see what the scum of oil from torpedoed tankers was doing to the wild fowl. Oil is bad for ducks. It gets into their feathers and feed, makes them sick, keeps them from flying. The birdman was relieved to see only one miserable, oil-smeared duck...
Confining their activities to Cambridge alone, the Class will condense its celebration into two days. The Monday evening show, the day on the North Shore, the Symphony Concert, and the customary dance will be among the events omitted...
...browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...