Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days past on shore duty, I lost consistently at bridge, and at one time became a well-known loser at the University Club in Washington (a den of wolves ever on the alert for new lambs). Last night my partner held 13 spades. The circumstances were a bit unusual...
...great naval base itself, which took 17 years to build and cost $170,000,000, lies along the northern shore of Singapore Island on the far side of the island from the city but on the near side for the Japs- just across the Strait from Johore. By last week, it was already growing worthless as a base to British and American ships in the Far East. But if it is valueless to them, the British want it to remain valueless...
...high-water mark of the previous British advance across the desert&151;Erwin Rommel was in a perfect tactical spot. He held a shore position flanked on one side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied out last week his first thrust was tentative&151;only ten miles. Then he turned on more power. North along the seacoast rumbled his well-trained columns&151;tanks, ugly but efficient troop carriers, skittering little "People's Cars" used as staff cars...
Just as the pilot was about to loose his grasp on the buoy, Warner pulled him into his small boat and rowed him safely to shore...
Those best qualified to judge thought him the master versemaker in English of his generation. He lived in a decaying palazzo in Rapallo, on the Mediterranean shore near Genoa. Of his own greatness Ezra Pound had no doubt; he named his son Homer Shakespear Pound, so the story went, "for the crescendo effect." Writers whom he had befriended included a grateful exile, James Joyce, and a sportsman, Ernest Hemingway. His letters, jaggedly typed, jumpy with execrations and wit, walloped out in enormous numbers, were avant-garde currency for 20 years...