Word: shorewards
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...Commando barges, carrying also a detachment of U.S. Rangers, moved shoreward. Along the French coast anti-aircraft guns barked fretfully. R.A.F. bombers, sent ahead, were softening up inland positions. But the Nazis might not have guessed what was brewing, if ill luck had not overtaken the raiders groping into Berneval...
...Marines had done their work, and the Navy was ready to tell the story, it was enough to know that this time the shells pounding the invaded islands came from U.S. ships. This time the bombs rending docks, ships, airdromes and troops were U.S. bombs. The men riding shoreward in squat assault boats, leaping to the beaches, mounting their guns and slowly closing their hold on the islands were U.S. Marines. This time it was the Japs who peered slit-eyed from the slit trenches, who listened for the roar of attacking planes, who wondered when the hard, murderous strangers...
...sound of grinding chain struck his ears and the Vagabond turned to look at the railway. His boat was setting down stern-first into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...
...whose dream became a nightmare is a far more famed Californian- nimble, thimble-sized John Downey Harvey, son of Society Leader Eleanor Martin and San Francisco's chief dandy in the early 1900s. Like Dr. Roberts, he in his day cast his eyes shoreward, conceived a passenger railroad to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 80 mi. south. Downey Harvey incorporated Ocean Shore R. R. in 1905. Big sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never...
...mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...