Word: antigua
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...Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are: 1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland. 2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica. 3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland. 4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes. 5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas...
...said he, had acquired from the British Government the right to lease naval and air bases in Newfoundland. Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua, British Guiana. The Newfoundland and Bermuda bases were gifts, "gratefully received." In return for the other bases, the U. S. had given England 50 overage U. S destroyers. He called it "epochal...
...when superimposed on the shadow of Italy's sharp little foot dancing through North Africa toward the Near East (see p. 27). And the nations' fears, from the mighty U. S. down to the areas well-educated people had never thought twice about until lately-Buna, Tonkin, Antigua-these fears grew to ominous presentiments of things to come...
Particularly he was told not to miss "the Popenoe place," called the Casa del Capuchino. This was a 300-year-old Spanish house, in ruins since the destruction of Antigua by earthquake in 1773, which had lately been restored by United Fruit Co.'s famed agronomist Dr. Wilson ("Pop") Popenoe and his wife. Guest of Dr. Popenoe for two weeks, Author Adamic decided the house warranted a book. A further incentive arose from his enthusiastic agreement with United Fruit Co.'s Managing Director Samuel Zemurray, who had said of the natives: "They've got something, those people...
...historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less naïve. As a device for jarring the reader out of that slightly dreamy state induced by travel books, the theory, coming where it does in The House in Antigua, is indisputably effective...