Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could find the sunken hull. Other wreckage was found miles away. Mooncussers, scrabbling among the jetsam, found a piece of cabin from the Pentagoet, another steamer lost without trace. Had the ships rammed each other? Or had the Portland hit the bar? Or had she clawed off shore only to break up under the terrible pounding...
...hull was found. It was lying, sanded in, among huge boulders some four miles off shore and 145 feet down. Her superstructure swept away, she had gone down like a sounding lead in deep water...
...leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before the movie was due for release. Last September the record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came out, the U.S. was in a mood for "corn belt" music with words like...
...January to attend the trial of the men accused of his brother's murder, he will be starting the next chapter of a tale of international intrigue that has steadily been building up in intensity since the corpse of correspondent George Polk was found floating 150 yards off shore in Salonika...
Last spring, 34-year-old Bob Campbell set out to rediscover the old strike. He formed a syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly...