Word: australian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sister Kenny is almost hysterically partisan to one of modern medicine's most controversial figures: Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the tough-minded. Australian nurse who has her own theories about the nature of infantile paralysis and insists that her own methods of treating the disease (hot packs and exercises) are the one & only effective treatment. Poliomyelitis is the movie's chief villain. But organized medicine, stupidly, relentlessly belittling the indomitable heroine, is also cast as a menace...
Next and final objective for the U.S. team is Australia, which has been clutching the famed tennis trophy since international play stopped in 1939. Before the Australian junket begins in November, there will be a real battle among five top U.S. players. The not-so-sures: Parker, who may be replaced by Tom Brown, his conqueror in last fortnight's Nationals; Talbert and Mulloy, who may give way to a Ted Schroeder-Kramer doubles team. Kramer is the one sure bet to keep a big Christmas week date with the Aussies at Melbourne...
After this initial exchange of blows we made a circle off the transports at the "Canal" and when we returned ... an enemy ship was blasting away at the Australian cruiser Canberra. . . . Captain Bode made a fair and cool decision when he decided against entering the engagement, for he saw his duty was to protect American boys on the unguarded transports lying in the harbor...
...stop on the outskirts of New York City, who talk of tennis stars as other American boys discuss Joe Di Maggio and Ted Williams, scouted for good spots to shinny over the fence. The horseshoe-shaped concrete stadium was set to house global tennis again, with French, British and Australian accents. Inside the West Side Tennis Club's 11½acres, a kind of F. Scott Fitzgerald wonderland of pretty girls in shorts and lean, athletic men, the primping and preening went...
...very weak and hungry, and nearly dead, but the natives of Ninigo looked after him until an Australian district officer came and took him to a hospital on a big island called Manus. Afterwards, Nabetari came to Tarawa by airplane...