Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstration of its own. While Russia paraded its armed forces across the Red Square, the U.S.S. Leyte nosed into the Dardanelles, crossed the Sea of Marmara, anchored in the Bosphorus. Behind her trailed the cruiser Dayton, the destroyers Purdy and Bristol. The flagship Dayton fired a salute. Turkish shore batteries replied. The Turkish Government considered the U.S. visit purely routine. Said the U.S. Navy: it was simply paying a social call during a break in training exercises...
...fight again on D-day off Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear, was being towed to a scrapper's yard when the gales hit. The Warspite was swept aground near a Cornish town named Mousehole. Then the big seas lifted her close to shore. A lifesaving crew, risking destruction, got the crewmen safely ashore. But the Warspite was doomed to final breakup on the jagged rocks...
...jungle valleys, back from the southwest shore of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, live the world's most determined isolationists: the celebrated Motilon Indians. They are naked, few in number and disunited. Airplanes fly over their territory; the modern machines of U.S. and British oil companies clank around their borders. But the Motilones, not budging an inch, go right on in the old ways: slipping through the tangled jungle, invisible as the wind, silent as their heavy arrows that can slam through a grown man's chest and out the other side...
...referring to Houston's growth, you mention that along its 50 miles of Ship Channel shore there are concentrated $6,000,000 worth of plants. $600 million would be more nearly accurate, for one oil company alone has over $100 million invested in refineries and other...
Bush Taxi. Ontario-born John McNiven now lives in Yellowknife, on the desolate northern shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there...