Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there would be coffee, and there would not be much danger. They had to go in. When I looked at these faces and realized these things, I knew I could not stay aboard the PC. I had cast my lot with these men when we set out for the shore, and this was no time to desert. I put on my jacket, buckled on my belt, and shouldered my pack...
Headed for the No. 2 position, Vice Chief of Naval Operations under non-flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...
...Admiral Richardson, talking across the gadget-littered desk, did not respond to the President's ebullience. He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train. Neither the Navy nor the nation, he had concluded, was ready...
...give voices to his furred and feathered folk, Impresario Disney signed up Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, the Andrews Sisters, Edgar Bergen. To supply the cartooned creatures with plots and dialogue, he has engaged such litterateurs as Novelist Huxley, Playwrights Marc Connelly and Edwin Justus Mayer, Author George Rippey Stewart, Author-Critic Sterling North and Folklorist Carl Carmer. Some Disney projects...
Next Feb. 14, said the National Defense Department, a small Canadian Army force, probably as few as 45 highly trained officers and men, plus some hand-picked observers from other nations, would start out from Churchill, Manitoba, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth...