Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb-scarred square to hear him speak from a balcony draped with the Stars & Stripes and the Tricolor. Emotion clogged the Mayor's voice as he gave thanks to the Americans. He said: "Up to now we have been slaves. Today we are Frenchmen." The crowd responded with surf-like cheers: Vive la France! Vive l'Amérique! Vive De Gaulle! But some among them had freed Frenchmen's work...
Child in the Surf. Looking down, I counted the bodies of seven others who had killed themselves. One, a child of about five, clad in a ragged white shirt, floated stiffly in the surf...
...slit trenches, mess kits in hand and leaning into the wind, in their quest for some hot food. The wind was reaching a velocity of 40 to 45 miles an hour in its worst puffs, and its whistle was audible above the dreadful sounds of clashing steel and pounding surf. It was about as dismal a scene as I ever recall, and I have seen such things as the Quetta earthquake in India and monsoons in the Indian Ocean...
Dapper, boyish Sherman Billingsley, 44, seemed tired as he bowed over ladies' hands at cocktails. In the summer he likes to go to the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, Long Island, to dabble in the surf and suntan himself for a hard winter in doors. But now he was losing his tan; all last week Billingsley had been kept from the beach by New York's hen-shaped May or LaGuardia. On the previous Saturday night the Mayor had sent four uninvited characters into the lush decor of Billingsley's famed blue-and-gold Stork Club...
...vast messiness and spine-cracking effort as men move tanks, guns and ammunition from the beach into the jungle's boggy fantasia are even more impressive than the breathtaking shots made from low-flying strafers, or the magnificence of certain moments when the morning mist merges ships, men, surf, jungle into half-glimpsed symbols of men and nature...