Word: shoreward
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...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
...render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
...kept the Juneau's crew almost constantly at general quarters. Teamed up with destroyers of her own group and ships of Britain's Royal Navy, the Juneau sank several large trawlers slipping out of ports in South Korea after they had landed North Korean reinforcements. She darted shoreward and lobbed five-inch shells at coastal roads and bridges...
...Brooklyn waterfront. Last week Susie, who weighs 20 pounds and has killed as many as four rats in an hour, aimed a potent left at an adversary at the Kerr Steamship pier. The rat ducked and Susie's haymaker carried her clear off the pier. Gamely Susie struggled shoreward, ending up on a piling under the pier. Dockwallopers combed the waterfront looking for her. After six days, the longshoremen heard her calls and organized a successful rescue party...
...their best white, lined up to form the word "Welcome" on the side of Signal Hill. Some 200,000 more South Africans stood in the sweltering sun or clung to flagpoles to roar their greetings, many fainting with the heat. Britain's considerate King suggested that the shoreward procession start a half hour early...