Word: shorewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...tragic splendor which no other film has caught so well. The best of these shots give the event something of its scope and meaning against the.even greater scope and meaning of nature, for they catch (in color) the conclave of great ships and the deadly surge shoreward of landing craft under fire, among the all but unbelievable lights and tints of a sea daybreak. In one of the best shots of all, sand and sea and sky combine colors so tender, in so untender a context, that for a moment all color and action seem annulled, as if this prenatal...
...Nashville bore shoreward. The first land sighted by General MacArthur was the islet of Suluan, the first seen by Magellan when he discovered the Philippines in 1521. The first landings, on Homonhon, where Magellan had made his first landing, and on nearby Dinagat (see below), were only the preliminaries in MacArthur's vast and meticulously planned schedule of operations. His first major goal was Leyte, in the heart of the islands, where devoted Visayan guerrillas had been heard calling by secret radio for help a year...
...appeared. At the end of the rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...