Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and Navy, in official manuals, advise that if no other food is available, men lost in the jungle can eat termites (with wings removed), grasshoppers, crickets, ant eggs, beetle grubs. Further light on bugs as food was shed recently in the Australian Medical Journal...
...When Australian machine gunners later disputed the kill, Brown never made any extravagant claims. In civilian life he was a small, unassertive man, greying and dapper in later years. Last week, at his peaceful farm near Toronto, Captain Roy Brown, D.S.O., D.F.C. with bar, quietly died...
Years ago Australian police had sent Mrs. Flemington photos of the Pajama Girl. She had denied that the mangled face could be her daughter's. But she kept on having dreams that her daughter was afloat. Last month a weary Sydney detective, rereading a Flemington appeal, had a hunch: a dentist was found who could say positively that the Pajama Girl's dentistry tallied with Linda's. After that, everyone remembered details-how the pretty, sharp-featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio...
Said Mrs. Flemington, as her son-in-law waited trial in Melbourne: "The Australian police told me they would solve the mystery ... if it took a lifetime. They kept their word...
...Mother," the cloud-shrouded tallest of Rabaul's volcanic peaks, and the lesser "Daughters" on either side, brooded somberly. Australian officials recalled the report which was made by vulcanologists more than three years ago after an inspection of Rabaul's treacherous strata: another eruption was likely to occur at any moment...