Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corn Cobbers. In Manhattan, two Australian flyers, tired of waiting for travel orders home, applied for New Jersey farm jobs...
...amazed, and bemused, was one Australian correspondent that all he could do was cable his paper: "The whole thing is beyond words," and sign his name...
There was still some fighting to be done along the 1,500 miles of its length; 55,000 to 60,000 Japanese troops had been trapped in pockets along the north coast. But for U.S. and Australian troops a grueling, malarial campaign which began two years ago (when the Japs almost took Port Moresby) had ended in a brilliant victory. Its final phase was all but bloodless...
...Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone...
Arthur's father, a keen Australian cricketer with flowing blond mustaches, walked out on his team during an England v. Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often...