Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interrelated land, air and sea defenses. Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...
...thing and another the WAVES don't get much time off: that is until Saturday night rolls around every week. Then they can sign out for as long as they like. The rest of the time it's pretty much work for these women the will more straight into shore jobs which new keep valuable male officers on the beryle side of the seacoast...
Although the WAVES will see duty only in shore stations in the continental United States, their courses on disbursing includes the discharging of that unit both ashore and afloat. Since the duty of shore offices is to serve units at sea, the Navy feels that they have to understand all branches of the service to do their own jobs well...
...parts. Money in the bank is anathema to him, so proceeds from Anthony Adverse went into realizing Allen's feudal dream of a self-sustaining family unit. With his wife Ann and three children (Marcia, 13; Mary Ann, ii; Richard, 6) he built on Maryland's Eastern Shore "one of the most complete family plants in the world," making bread from his own wheat, wine from his own grapes. Cows, hens and the waters of an inlet from Chesapeake Bay supply the Aliens with milk, eggs, fish and crabs...
...look now mates, but that's land in sight there just off the starboard how... and before noon today the mooring lines will have been made fast, the gangway put down and the crew detached. there'll be a few brief days of shore leave and then ... like John Masefield, "We must down to the seas again...