Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treasure island. The only lines inland are rivers, leading into a mysterious, mountainous land of superstition and legend-the land of the Dyaks, the wild men of Borneo, who used to collect heads as Westerners collect stamps; who believe that their victims' spirits enter their own bodies and add to their strength; who live, 50 families in a bunch, in communal houses up on stilts to be safe from orangutans, honey bears, rhinoceroses, elephants, snakes...
...British really begun to equip Hong Kong to meet a growing threat. They sent Canadian and British troops, new supplies and artillery. But when the Japanese struck, Hong Kong was still far from ready. Too many men were there to surrender without battle, too few to do more than add a brave and futile postscript to a colorful century of history...
...Victory. But Homer Lea thought that assaults on the Philippines and Hawaii would be only a beginning. He wrote in 1909 (in 1941 he would probably add air battles wherever he referred to naval battles): "The advocates of naval expansion have . . . given a wrong impression to the public, not as to the necessity of a navy, but as to the accomplishment of enterprises beyond its sphere. Neither now nor in the future will international conflicts be determined by naval engagements. In some instances naval victories may produce conditions that will tend to hasten the conclusion...
...carnival spirit usually reserved for its Mardi Gras, the New Orleanians prepared to add the war-orphaned East-West football game* to the seven lusty events (all for $10) that already constitute Sugar Bowl week. Sugar Bowl week is only seven years old. But it has already challenged the prestige of Pasadena's 25-year-old Rose Bowl. Nucleus of the program is a New Year's Day football game between the two best college teams available (at a guarantee of $70,000 apiece to their athletic departments...
...remain so for a long time. Four months ago Secretary of the Navy Knox pointed out that, if war came, the Navy would probably suspend all work on heavy units to free skilled labor for the production of destroyers, submarines and planes. The Navy is preparing to add many a cruiser in the 10,000-12,000-ton classes. Following the German lead, it intends to give them a much stiffer wallop than they have...