Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were bombing Pyongyang, the Red capital, and other objectives north of the 38th parallel. U.S., British and Australian naval forces, including carriers and cruisers, were committed to action in the Korean theater; U.S. warships shelled shore installations at the Red-seized port of Inchon. Douglas MacArthur ordered the 24th Division, equipped with tanks and artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church...
Hundreds of families lined the banks waiting for transport. Whenever a boat touched shore there was a desperate, pathetic scramble for places inside. A small, bustling official with a large club had appointed himself temporary beachmaster. Like a maddened punchinello, he flailed at the gathering crowds of refugees, screaming at them to back away from the bank. The docile crowd obeyed...
...relatives of the passengers waited at the Minneapolis airport, desperate and weary. Alarms went out; planes and ships headed out into the storm, to criss-cross Lake Michigan, looking for wreckage. Close to the hour when the Northwest aircoach was due over Milwaukee, a woman on the Michigan lake shore near Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke in the lightning...
...bearded, bedraggled men in faded overalls and cheap suits crowded round the door of La Guaira's Interior Ministry. The night before, just 42 days after leaving Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, they had disembarked from the tiny, 75-year-old schooner New Adam to the Venezuelan shore and a new life in the new world...
...letter MacIntyre expressed the hope that the next bottle would contain more than a message. He wrote, "I am sending you this note which I found in a bottle on the shore at the mouth of the Harvard River on the west coast of South Uist. Hoping this will find you in the best of health. I hope you will send 100 pounds in your next bottle...