Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked hard to hide what he was doing. He struck daily and with increasing fury at the Allied base at Port Moresby on the south shore of New Guinea, seemed willing to spend men and planes recklessly to drive the United Nations from their bases there. He also smashed at Darwin, but with less determination, presumably because it was harder to get to, and because it could wait its turn...
This time there was plenty of strength, plenty of cooperation between sea and land forces. Syfret's guns opened up on Diégo-Suarez' batteries as the landing parties set out for shore. His planes, presumably from a carrier, swept in and blasted a way for them. Sturges' mixed force of Marines and Commandomen piled out on the beach and plowed in from west and north, spearheaded by light tanks and aided by parachute troops...
Currently appearing in "All's Fair", the celebrated song stress built up her reputation on the radio, where she has appeared on the Eddie Cantor and Abbott and Costello shows. Another alumna of the Canter program. Dinah Shore, filled this sport at the big Freshman dance last year...
...real significance of Madagascar is that its lee shore shelters the 250-mile wide, heavily-trafficked Mozambique Channel, which, if the island were in Jap hands, would seem to Allied shipping like the neck of a bottle of poison. From the island the Japanese could play hob with Allied shipping bound either for Suez or India. But for once the Jap had been beaten to the punch...
Army control of shore lighting is only the first move in complete Army control of a new "military area": the whole Eastern Seaboard, under the order of Lieut. General Hugh Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...