Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...
Died. Horace Victor Myers, 68, retired Jamaica rum magnate (Myers); in Kingston, British West Indies. He played host to thousands of U.S. citizens on Kingston's famed "Sugar Wharf." Died. Senator Charles Linza McNary, 69, Senate Republican leader; after a brain operation; in Fort Lauderdale...
...will be no return game at New Haven to give Harvard a chance for revenge over the Blue for the four-point victory the Bulldogs eked out on December 18. Replacing the game, originally scheduled for January 19, will be a tilt with the Boston Coast Guard at Constitution Wharf...
Died. William Wymark ("W.W.") Jacobs, 79, for almost 50 years a favorite British humorist; after long illness; in London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...
...crew sighted the coast of Japan. Flying in at low level they saw fruit trees in bloom, neat farms fitting into each other, farmers at work. It took iron control to pass up "the biggest, fattest-looking aircraft carrier" the crew ever saw. Every inch of shoreline was wharf, crowded with yachts and heavy ships. They flew low over the roofs toward the first of their chain of four targets. Four times the red light on the instrument board blinked, as each bomb was released. Lawson looked back once, saw a steel smelter "puff out its walls and then subside...