Word: windblown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackness before dawn, the Greek ship Chimara, 1,800 tons and packed with 548 passengers, slogged through windblown seas. She was close to shore, off the eastern tip of the Attica peninsula. Her journey from Salonika to Piraeus (Athens' port) was to end in a few hours. But some of her 87 crewmen were restive. They knew the menace of floaters; some had protested against night voyages in these waters, which had been heavily sown with mines during...
Spring had come to the temperate zones, and to man's logistic zeal the northern pathways were almost as free as the all-year highways and alleys of the south Pacific. One foe, windblown by his dash, was catching his wind while his supplies came up. Another, fighting through the winter in the greatest battle of history, had dredged his high schools for new soldiers and scraped the bottom of factories and food stores for their supplies. In Easter week, while the United Nations sped over vast distances to meet them, they were about ready to strike...