Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minesweepers closed in, radioing their position to shore stations and to a nearby group of destroyers. From the rail of the Arlosoroff the immigrants shouted taunts as 13 British sailors drew up alongside and swung aboard. The sailors met a wall of wild-eyed men & women, most of them young and strong. Disregarding the sailors' guns and tear-gas grenades the Jews waded in, overpowered the British sailors, flung them into...
...pressure keeps falling, the pilot can tell that he is approaching a low-pressure area. Heading towards Europe, he would veer south (as on the map) to pick up a tail wind. Flying west, he would veer north, and get a similar boost. Radioed reports from ships, from shore or from other planes help him figure out the situation. Frequently a properly plotted pressure course, though covering a longer sea distance, saves more, than an hour on a transatlantic flight. It also saves fuel and money-a modern, four-engined airplane costs $1,000 an hour to operate...
...holding one of its periodic meetings. Canadian Chairman Andrew G. L. McNaughton and U.S. Chairman Fiorello LaGuardia hopped up to Churchill on a tour of their own. They reported that there were 1,000 soldiers, civilians and their wives (including 130 Americans) at Churchill on the bleak western shore of Hudson Bay. Artillery, machine guns, snowmobiles and winter clothing are being tested there. So are a few planes - DC-35, Mosquitoes, and a Halifax. Jet-propelled planes? Said McNaughton:'"There is nothing of that sort up there. . . . There is not a thing we are the least anxious about...
...week began, the Chicago South Shore and South Bend's westbound No. 26 ploughed into a busload of section hands at the Andry crossing, 20 miles from South Bend, killing 13, injuring...
Nicky Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean Pierre Aumont). Nicky, it seems, is so crazy over music that he cannot notice girls, even if it rains girls. But during his brief shore leave, Miss de Carlo inspires him to compose Song of India, Flight of the Bumblebee, Hymn to the Sun and practically every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel...