Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company has built big tile workrooms that are as gleaming as a Hollywood steam bath. The market lives up to its boast: "If it swims, we handle it." The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives...
...youthful General Gus Beale to see that his men do. Unlike most generals in fiction, Beale is not only a very likable man, he is also fit to be a general. A brilliant fighter pilot, a veteran of Bataan and the North African front, he is now being kept out of harm's way in Florida, his every move watched by the men in Washington who must decide whether or not to choose him as commander of the expected air assault on Japan...
...Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
...detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...
Just how absurd it all is readers of Storm and Echo will discover. Of his earlier gifts, Prokosch still retains a descriptive talent that can make the heat, the stench, and the occasional beauty of the African jungle almost tangible. Stripped of its pretentious symbolism, its agonized soul-searching, this could have been a good travel book. But the vivid jungle is matted and twined with the perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp...