Earlier efforts by tugboats to free the $2 billion vessel failed, prompting officials to wait until the evening tide to refloat it.
Using stencils of fallen bodies, volunteers raked the sand to reveal soldiers' silhouettes, before the evening tide poignantly washed away the figures.
This man was going to take 800 that morning and 800 on the evening tide — how could he resist the $80 he would make for a pretty easy day's work?
And there, up the Suffolk beach in real life, Dame Iris preferred the Dorset coast, much farther south is Mr. Broadbent's John Bayley, all stooped solicitude, catering tenderly to a wife who is retreating from him more rapidly than the evening tide.
Be certain that you have distinguished properly between morning and evening tide times.
— DIANTHA PARKER The afternoon tide has come and gone in New York, with no reports of significant flooding, the National Weather Service said.
I am so quick searching for comfort on the iPhone keyboard that, in London, riding the rising midnight tide of a toothache, it took me no more than 30 seconds to find an all-night dental clinic on Baker Street - not far I noted, still a tourist at heart, from Sherlock Holmes' lodgings.
Jersey's Met Department said Saturday night and Sunday morning's tides may cause further problems.
New Jersey dealt with a soaking rain and the threat of coastal flooding from morning and midday high tides.
Michael was already pushing ocean water above typical levels at the coast Tuesday afternoon, with tides running about two feet above normal along Florida's Gulf Coast.
