Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balding Jimmy's citation: "Through his maintenance of communications, he was able to inform his own supporting vessels of the presence of two enemy vessels, as a result of which the two enemy vessels were destroyed. During the evacuation, he personally saved three men from drowning in heavy surf...
...landing boats, they took off through the wild surf. Private Taylor's major had advised him to have a greeting ready for the Liberians, so he had prepared a statement which he recited to himself as they rocked and roared ashore. Wet and bedraggled, he leaped out on a desolate beach on the edge of the bush, marched up to the only Liberians in sight. They were half a dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world...
Algiers. Two U.S. Ranger officers and a newspaperman, scrambling ashore with the first assault force near Fort Sidi-Ferruch, 15 miles west of Algiers, were met by a friendly French officer. Twenty minutes later, still dripping with surf, they were inside the fort shaking hands with the garrison commander, who showed them instructions received the previous evening for cooperating with the Americans...
...Flopping on the ground or into a slit trench, or behind any kind of obstruction which breaks the surf of sound, protects ears with surprising effectiveness. So does the old-fashioned trick of sticking fingers into ears. Shields and turrets are good ear savers for gunners...
...their strange language, which is Semitic dashed with the flavors of Europe, they whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many...