Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never in history had such an evacuation taken place with such a show of overwhelming power. Flung wide across the sullen East China Sea was the mighty U.S. Seventh Fleet. Cruisers and destroyers prowled to and fro within range of Communist shore batteries. From below the horizon, five of the U.S.'s mightiest carriers flung an umbrella of jet fighters above the two scruffy little islands. Closer in. the sea was littered with transports and scurrying landing craft in the disheveled bustle of a major amphibious operation...
Later, on shore, we discussed this phenomenon. After consulting local authorities, the Captain and I decided that the island was a Guatemalan Dragger-crunch, which appears only when all the world's children under the age of six have brushed their teeth three times...
Last week two shipborne expeditions prowled among the antarctic icebergs. In the Amundsen Sea, east of Little America, the 6,500-ton U.S. Navy icebreaker Atka, with 250 men aboard, headed south, battering its way through pack ice in search of a harbor along the continental shore...
Cold Cold War. The Argentine flotilla set out from Buenos Aires in mid-December to carry supplies and men to Argentina's eight permanent antarctic outposts, and to bring back the men whose one-year tours of polar duty were done. On the shore of a bay at 78° south, 39° west, the expedition built a ninth year-round outpost-a weather station-and left 20 men to staff it. Buenos Aires claimed that it was the southernmost permanent base in the antarctic...
After plodding through the 301 pages of The Drama of Albert, Einstein, a book sent to her by an admirer, winsome Songstress Dinah Shore, now burbling her old favorites (e.g., It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House and Blues in the Night) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, ventured a timid literary criticism. "I've concluded, honey," sighed she, "that it's easier to understand relatives than relativity...