Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Pierre Laval was reported dickering for a piece of real estate on the shore of Switzerland's Lake Geneva-where Byron's famed Prisoner of Chillon ate his heart...
...addition to the time spent on board ship, the men will get to know their way around a Navy Yard and possibly other shore bases, he stated, although the plans are not yet definite...
...flat, swampy farms along the eastern shore of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, where the rich, black muck sometimes goes as deep as 20 feet, and the long green beans ripen 45 days after planting, the first group of Bahamian Negroes brought to the U.S. in World War II went to work last week...
...Manhattan offices, it culls and reprints a selection of popular tunes. Within a few weeks every U.S. Army company from North Africa to Guadalcanal is supplied with a new batch of sheet music. A committee of top-flight U.S. entertainers (Fred Waring, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Dinah Shore, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, etc.) gladly act as song judges...
...great city") is memorable. "Acres of ice" floated in the Mississippi. "The ferries were jammed with men, women, children, horses, oxen, cows, swine, chickens, feather beds, Boston rockers, a miscellany of families and goods hastily brought together in the fear of death. The boats dumped them on the Iowa shore and turned back for other, identical freights-American refugees fleeing a city under threat from an enemy...