Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood by amiably while London's bobbies rounded up an agile civilian drunk. The only riot remotely concerning the Navymen themselves occurred in Tottenham Court Road when authorities forgot to tell enlisted men about a dance scheduled at the Paramount Dance Hall. Only 50 sailors showed up. A shore patrol officer stopped by to explain this statistical affront to 450 disappointed London girls. The ladies, with screams and threats, drove him into the street to round up more escorts. He got another...
...pounder, then a world's record for Kamloops (now it's a 36-pounder). Then the rush began. Anglers converged on Pend Oreille, equipped with deep-sea tackle and high hopes. When the Kamloops bit, they bit hard. One man, rowing along the shore one morning with his rod draped over the stern, suddenly saw the rod fly up as if alive. He dropped his oars and dived for it, splitting his chin open on the boat's gunwale. The fish got away, taking rod & reel with...
That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
Army and Navy reconnaissance planes from Oahu kept Hawaiian yachting fans posted as the boats approached. The night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours...
...crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...