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Word: shore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam for shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: House Divided | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Necktie, a Notebook. Unconscious but still alive, Polk was thrown overboard to drown-in stagnant water only 150 yards off shore. His money and most of his papers were left on the body, as evidence that not robbery but "deliberate execution" was the motive. Then his identity card was mailed to the police. Still missing: Polk's notebook, his scarf, his favorite necktie (bright red and blue)-and the flower vendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death & the Flower Vendor | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Broadway's smash hit picturing a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war is: 1. Red Peppers. 2. Make Mine Manhattan. 3. Shore Leave. 4. Angel in the Lights. 5. Mister Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Robinson Crusoe is not the only literary offspring of the Juan Fernández. In 1719, a mariner aboard the English privateer Speedwell shot a black albatross. Seven months later, the Speedwell was wrecked on Más-a-Tierra's rocky shore. On that episode Samuel Taylor Coleridge based the shooting of the albatross in The Rime oj the Ancient Mariner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: In Selkirk's Steps | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...regional scholarships, offered jointly by the college and local Radcliffe clubs are also included in the Massachusetts list. Miss Janet Fernald of Hanover received the Old Colony Radcliffe Club award and Miss Cynthia Wales of Marblehead won the North Shore Radcliffe Club scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incoming '52 Receives Fifty Scholarships | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

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