Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the once-mighty French battleship Richelieu limped into New York harbor six weeks ago with other ships of the French Navy (TIME, Feb. 22), New Yorkers have sympathetically watched, wined, dined and entertained the French sailors cavorting on shore leave. Easily recognized by the red pompon on their blue caps, the sailors strolled arm in arm up & down Broadway; they crowded the tiny French restaurants in the East Fifties, chatting with waiters, bartenders, barflies. Some started learning a few simple words of English (see cut), some gave their blood to the Red Cross...
...packed with hopeful sailors and tired businessmen. Numerous Harvard students were also looking for not-so-innocent merriment. Actually, the show is a must for members of the Film-Society and the Verein Turmwaechter and nothing but an expensive ($0.75) disillusionment for lusty minded Harvardians and sailors on shore leave...
...merchantman burst open. Four others were hit. Low-flying fighters turned lifeboats towed by motor barges, and packed with Jap survivors, into bloody sieves. Loosed on the Japs was the same ferocity which they had often displayed. This time few, if any, Japs in battle green reached shore...
Landing Party. On the loch below an ancient clansman's castle (which is headquarters), Rangers armed to the teeth paddled toward shore in longboats. From the crags a rifle spat and a pair of Bren guns began a frenetic stutter. Water spurted up alongside the boats. A bullet shattered a paddle blade...
Smoke billowed out from the Jap's hatches. Lashed by the New Zealander's gunfire, the sub limped towards shore. Off Cape Esperance it suddenly went down at the stern. Said the New Zealand skipper: "There she rested on a reef, and she's still there with 30 or 40 feet of her bow in the air pointed towards Tokyo. I ordered the rum broken out for each...