Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's Choice. In Battle Creek, William Casey turned the tide in his campaign to get Sylvia Shore to marry him: he presented her with a petition signed by 250 fellow citizens...
...mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million to make their Railroad Fair the biggest since the New York World's Fair. They packed 50 acres of Chicago's lake shore with sideshows, pageants, new coaches and exhibits, including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular scheduled service. All this was by way of announcing that the railroads are spending an estimated $1 billion in the next two years on new cars...
...Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks who sneaked out, reached the shore, swam half a mile to the Hastings and told what had happened. The Hastings put a landing party ashore and fired its four-inch guns into the black mountainside. After that, no more was heard from the raiders...
...most formidable hazards of the whole journey looms at the banks of the wide Taling River. Here the Communist line ends. On the river's opposite shore Nationalists stand guard. Whoever tries to wade, swim or boat across will be shot. This is a precaution against possible over-water attack by disguised Communists. The only unmolested transit is by way of the blasted railway bridge, a fearful half mile catwalk of twisted girders...
...They cry, "Please close your eyes and don't be scared. We've done this many times before." Then they pick a nimble passage over the broken bridge, while their passengers look down in terror and vertigo at the swirling waters far below. Safe on the opposite shore, many break down in sobs...