Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University wide sculling competition in six classes will begin in two weeks, Coach Blake Dennson announced last night, as a promise of relief from summer ennui on the Charles waterfront...
...Waterfront. For the feature writers, there was a tearjerker capped by a heroic rescue. In the few months since her arrival in this country, Susie, a self-made immigrant from India, had built herself an enviable reputation as the toughest cat on the 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...
...Louis had escaped serious damage as the highest Mississippi flood crest in 103 years swept by (TIME, July 7). But south of St. Louis the little waterfront towns waited, fought the flood and passed the word downriver to towns like Grand Tower...
Some told how in waterfront cafés in New Orleans and Miami, in hotel rooms in Manhattan and Mexico, political exiles were plotting the overthrow of half a dozen governments. The purported plots crossed ideological lines; they were against rightist regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, against leftist governments in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela. At hand in the U.S. were stacks of surplus guns, and plenty of adventurers, unemployed fighter pilots, aerial gunners and combat infantrymen who would fight at the drop of a dollar...
...Welcome Home!" roared half a million voices from the crowd clustered 40-deep along the Portsmouth waterfront. Naval batteries thundered salutes. Sirens howled. And from a forest of mastheads bobbing in the harbor royal ensigns dipped in respectful greeting. On the quarter-deck of the Vanguard the Royal Family stood once again, berry-brown and beaming at the end of their 14,000-mile, three-month trip. As the great, grey battleship that had carried them so far slid gracefully into her home berth once more, Princess Elizabeth was so excited that she broke into a dance step. "Oh," cried...