Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Edison thereupon found himself not only on a tough job but in a curious personal relationship with other Navy rankers. By statute and regulation the Assistant Secretary has under him the Navy's "shore establishments" (Yards & Docks; Engineering; Construction & Repair; Supplies & Accounts). He also has much to do with the Bureaus of Aeronautics (planes) and Ordnance (guns). But he -is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And over both is the Secretary of the Navy. But he is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations...
Most skillful is his use of symbols: in a story about the birth of a boy, fishermen launch a boat on the night sea; in a story set in conquered territory, a farmer carefully yokes his oxen; when the sirocco blows, a well-organized phalanx of shore-folk wade into the heavy sea to save men who are washed overboard in landing their boats...
...Dearborn, Mich., Mrs. Stella Maude Kronberg spied a dog struggling among the ice floes in River Rouge. She got out her boat, spent two hours smashing her way through the ice, pulled back to shore with the dog in her arms. Once there, it bit her cheek and scampered off. She died of rabies...
From the south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 miles away. From the northwest another column came down on Manresa. Barcelona was 30 miles away, but this force was headed toward the sea north of the Loyalist capital in an apparent effort to encircle the city, cut it off from France. The western attackers reached Martorell. Barcelona was 10 miles away...
...mind; everything, he said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them out. At sea the crew talked mutiny. In Guatemala the two Jews quit the ship. Bello did not mind. He asked the Captain to marry him to Nurse Husby...