Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rowboat's pace and her crew peering anxiously at debris in the water, the U.S. destroyer Boyd slipped in toward Japanese-held Nauru Island on the morning of Dec. 8, 1943. A U.S. fighter pilot had been- shot down within point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp Jr., unable to find the pilot, heeled...
...turned to me where you stood on the shore...
Fast to the darkened shore...
...well, mainly on the safely held beaches not far from Lefka on the northwest coast. Fast Turkish navy motorboats bring 30-man platoons across the 50-mile Mediterranean stretch; they are regularly watched by a Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...
...chief and most of his warriors are slaughtered by a treacherous fur trader, the discouraged remnant migrates to the mainland. But Karana's little brother misses the boat. "He will die!" Karana screams as she leaps from the ship's dory and strikes out for the shore...