Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert showed off his latest model. Installed on the bridge of the great Queen Elizabeth, it makes wartime radar look like a dim-eyed has-been. When the Elizabeth comes up the Narrows, the "scope" shows a highly detailed map, with buildings, docks, the speedway along the Brooklyn shore. Ships lying at anchor are well-defined shapes, not mere blobs. As the big ship approaches her berth, the scope shows the dock, the ferries, even the small tugs under the Elizabeth's bows...
...shore he had dimly seen was already a little clearer. Reporters, of course, had asked Mr. Arnall if he had any presidential aspirations. He gazed modestly at the ceiling. "I think that you play the cards as they fall. I can't see forcing one's luck," said Mr. Arnall...
Most gracious sovereign, leaving England's shore...
...provided by the god Hermes to help two children, Helle and Phryxus, dodge an untrustworthy stepmother. The ram took off through the air with the children on its back. Helle fell off and was drowned (hence the Hellespont, now the Dardanelles), but Phryxus reached the eastern shore of the Black Sea. He ungratefully sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave its fleece to the King of Colchis, who put it in a sacred grove guarded by a dragon...
...genie, at that time safely encased in the bottle, first rolled up on the industrial shore in 1943. Then, workers at Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. sued, under the Wages & Hours Act, for time spent in the plant before the whistle blew. (They were required to punch the time clock 14 minutes before the actual start of work, to give them time to walk to their benches, put on gloves, work clothes, etc.) A special master threw out the claims, on the grounds that the workers had not proved how much of the time was actually spent in "makeready" tasks...