Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrying the Russian flying mission. The photographer had to get between the plane and the land in order not to get the naval station, a "naval secret," in the background of the picture. When the occupants of the boat nastily surrendered, the Navy could not agree how close in shore they should not have come (one officer said 100 yards, another 50 yards; State patrolmen said the boundary was farther out in the lake...
Park Cushing and his crowd in Mapleton on the South Shore of Long Island lived as though they were afraid of some intrusion, even of some innovation. They got uneasy when something unusual happened at one of their parties-as, for example, when Park's pretty wife Lynne, doing a dance with a pair of pots for a bra, lost her pots. That was a bit off the pattern. But it was all right for Peter Bailey to strew the living room with toilet paper. That was a tradition. It was also part of the pattern for Peter...
...tent pitched on a rocky shore, the King's justice last week came to the remote Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. At a table covered with the Union Jack sat Justice C. P. Plaxton from Toronto. Before him was a. scratch jury of miners, newspapermen, the crew of the schooner which had sailed 13 days to bring the court to the islands. From the half-tanned sealskins of the Eskimo defendants, witnesses and attentive spectators rose a sour, oily stink...
Senator George is not much on military affairs, but he knows that though Martinique has formidable natural possibilities for defense, it ought to be a pushover for a combined Naval, Marine and Army task force. That the island has no shore batteries to speak of, and not one airfield-so that the 100-odd dismantled U.S. planes which have sat there since the fall of France could not be used in defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews...
...those used by Indians in Maryland waters, its hull is hewn out of three or five huge logs, spiked together. Long before the Civil War, Bay fishermen used log canoes for tending crab pots. During the war, they were used to run the blockade from the Eastern to Western shore. The watermen of St. Michaels took to racing one another, began to build lighter, faster racing boats...