Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each nation talked of alternatives. The time for reappraisal was at hand. There would be hurried attempts to shore up Chancellor Adenauer, whose devotion to the West had been rebuffed at tremendous cost to his own prestige at home. The U.S. and Winston Churchill were still anxious to have German arms by whatever speedy way could now be found. But it would be harder than before to persuade a powerful and rejected Germany to accept the restrictions on its rearmament that everybody still thinks are necessary...
...pardoned six months later and left prison wrapped in a Confederate flag. She finally died for her cause: trying to get to Confederate headquarters with desperately needed gold, she was flung from a rowboat in a heavy sea off Wilmington, N.C. as she tried to make shore from a blockade-runner. Weighted down by the gold she had hidden in her clothes, she drowned...
...tower and a mass of sensitive electronic gear. Unlike similar outposts built by the British in World War II, the unarmed Air Force stations will seek only to locate, rather than destroy, enemy aircraft; they will also guide friendly fighters to the target, furnish weather information to ships and shore. For the 30-odd technicians assigned to each island, living will be cramped and bleak indeed; the Air Force plans to rotate its seagoing units every 30 days...
...bring the U-boat to Chicago, Dan Gallery's home town. The Navy was agreeable, and on June 26 Junior was welcomed to Chicago. This week, if weather and Lake Michigan permit, Junior will be hauled ashore in a momentous engineering operation and lugged across South Lake Shore Drive (traffic will be halted for twelve hours) to her final berth at the museum...
Wealthy and influential men from all over Canada and the U.S. gathered last week in the fishing village of Seven Islands, on the bleak north shore of the St. Lawrence River. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis, and Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood flew into town. A cruise ship brought 275 presidents, board chairmen or top executives of six major U.S. steel companies, U.S. and Canadian banks, insurance and trust companies and mining firms. The visitors assembled on Seven Islands' rain-drenched waterfront. A button was pushed, and rumbling machinery dumped carloads of red rock...