Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
...Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week 2,500 bluejackets were putting a complete set of newfangled uniforms through a three months' test...
...recorder of hate and love and death, sits in the pale California sunshine, chasing through the shadows of his own heart a quarry of monstrous guilt. A half-century ago, on a vacation, he crossed Lake Constance, and remembers that the Swiss shore seemed like a part of the great world, as his home was not. There was a taint (he thinks now) in that feeling; and in Lübeck, his home, more than a taint...
Toujours Lamoureux. In the English Channel, ex-G.I. Herbert J. Lamoureux, having cannily joined the Merchant Marine to return to his British war bride and child, plopped overboard, gamely attempted an icy five-mile swim to England's shore, was picked up, two miles short, placed aboard another U.S.-bound ship...
riverrun, past Smith and Leverett, from swerve of shore to coast of Gold, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation to a galexcellent group of mourners, reJoycing in common upperoom Adamatmosphers, performing last rites to a singleaf of "Finnegan's Wake" tothetuneofatwotoo solid hourangue...