Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, there came a never-ending string of recitals--piano recitals, string recitals, recitals by choral groups.... Surveys showed that recitals were popular only when they were good. Network listeners didn't much care whether those recitals were by Radcliffe girls or by Australian Bushmen...
...this man who lacks the confidence of his party is supposed to capture and hold that of the Australian people. As personal ambassador of President Roosevelt to all our Pacific Allies, he is called on to represent the American people at conferences of war and peace. It may not phase the United States to be once more represented by a political refugee, but it can't fail to gripe Australia to be represented to by one. More than one Anzae will be ruffled by this apparent slight, which quite evidently relegates the Pacific area to second-rate importance...
...shadow-barred jungle the motionless men said: "You must come in to kill us." Since September U.S. and Australian troops had been moving in to do it. Not until light tanks, 13-ton General Stuarts, were brought into action Dec. 8 did the tide begin to run decisively for the United Nations (TIME, Dec. 28). Even then it was a slow, bunker-by-bunker ad vance. Thrice General MacArthur announced that victory was near. Buna village and Gona, farther north, fell by mid-December, but not Buna Mission, a mile from the village, or other regions along the coast...
...most gallant guerrilla stories of the war was brought out of Timor last week by Australian Correspondent Bill Marien...
Tanks had turned the tide. Until they were brought into action Dec. 8, the jungle battle had been at an impasse. Then 13-ton General Stuarts, U.S.-made, Australian-manned, blasted Jap bunkers that previously had been impregnable. Infantry followed into the maze of connecting trenches with grenades, machine guns and bayonets. Bunker by bunker, as at Stalingrad, the process went...