Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great dramatic moments in literature occurs when Robinson Crusoe, walking the sands of his supposedly uninhabited island, is "exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore." What gives this episode its magnificence is not its mechanical "plot value" but its power to set the reader's imagination flaring like a torch. Even while his startled intellect searches this way and that for an explanation of the footprint, his anxious heart is oppressed with forebodings as to what the footprint may mean for Crusoe...
Ownership of these off-shore lands is a hot issue because they hold an estimated forty billion dollars worth of oil. So when Secretary of the Interior Ickes first accepted an application for a federal oil lease off-shore California in 1936, he opened a sixteen year legal battle for control of this oil. Ten years later President Truman wisely vetoed the first Congressional attempt to give away the land. Finally, the Supreme Court decided in 1947 that the Federal government had paramount rights in this off-shore area...
...French agreement for the bases was made in December 1950, at a time when the U.S. was threatened with defeat in Korea, and when Eisenhower had not yet arrived in Europe to help shore up its defenses. Base construction in Morocco got under way as what the Pentagon calls a "crash" program, in which speed is all-important and waste must be borne. The first estimate of total cost, $300 million, has now soared to $455 million...
...last, it would seem, Author Forester has run out of things for Hornblower to do. By page 210 the hero is putting in shore time and doing it rather badly. For one thing, as all his fans will remember, Hornblower has an unarmored spot over his heart. "The man who fired the broadside that shook the Renown off the mud when under the fire of red-hot shot was helpless when confronted by a couple of women." The heroic bounder slinks out on an affair of the heart with his landlady's daughter, and while the lass tearfully presses...
Plank Burial. Waxell ordered the well to carry the sick out of the fetid hold on to the wind-ripped shore. Many of them died almost as soon as the fresh air struck their lungs; blue foxes, which swarmed over the island, ate their hands and feet before they could be buried. The living crouched in sandpits near the beach, and there-without strength to move the men who died beside them, with little food except for sea otters and seals that they were able to kill, open to all weathers, and to winds of gale force-spent the whole...