Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was almost no resistance. Communist guns-753 and 1053-opened up from the north shore seven hours before the deadline set by the ultimatum for unconditional surrender. At 11 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across in a vast envelopment on both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort...
...starting times and lanes for the races follow: Lane 1 is nearest the Cambridge shore...
There is one possible change in the outfield--right fielder Steve Howe may be benched in favor of Foynes. Foynes, a lefty all around, is fast and has been hitting well in practice. He was on the varsity two years ago and played in the South Shore League last summer...
...final exams and the beginning of graduation activities, Class officials plan to arrange a series of events in an effort to keep the Class interested in staying for the June 19-23 program. Already scheduled tentatively for June 15 is an outing during the afternoon to the North Shore. Daniel B. Ray Second Marshal of the Class, said last night that more activities for the post exam period would be announced at a later date...
Titled after the shore on which Viola and her brother Sebastian are shipwrecked in Twelfth Night, it was a story based on the blighted, bittersweet life of Charles Lamb and his mad sister, Mary. Among its characters: a laudanum-shaken Coleridge, a sobersided Hazlitt, and an opium-eating De Quincey, who, as visiting friends of the Lambs, studded the play with some witty quotes picked from their own works...