Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solomon Islands 750 Japanese were trapped, then "massacred" by tanks which ground hundreds of the bodies into the rubble and splinter of a coconut grove. At Milne Bay in New Guinea 120 Japanese were "slaughtered" by U.S. and Australian troops slugging it out for a vital airfield. Far north at Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, U.S. bombers and escorting fighters flushed land troops and "mowed 'em down like straws." These were actions that the Japanese, fighting just as desperately, could respect. They could also understand the U.S. strategy of kill-or-be-killed...
...Australians, guarding the gap above Kokoda, had tried to stop them along the single narrow trail that leads over the mountains. The Japs' methods were those they had used in Malaya and Burma. Monkeylike troops, with heads, legs and bodies painted green, filtered through the jungles. And the Australians retreated. Said an Australian officer: "They kept outflanking us and getting behind us. They could see us but we couldn't see them...
Because the Australian Government thinks that underpopulation and a happy-go-lucky spirit are threats to the country's security, the Government last week...
...year ago last spring, Soprano Lawrence was riding the crest. She had given U.S. operagoers six lessons of sturdy, full-throated Wagnerian song. At a time when the mighty Kirsten Flagstad dominated the Metropolitan, Marjorie Lawrence's star was bright enough not to be eclipsed. Off stage, the Australian soprano doted on swimming, tennis, horseback riding; on stage, she seemed equally brimful of health. As Brünnhilde, she surprised and delighted operaphiles by leaping astride her horse and galloping off in an almost unheard-of concurrence with Wagner's stage directions. Less in character, though a triumph...
...March 1941 she married Dr. Thomas King, ruddy, boyish Miami osteopath. Three months later, while rehearsing Die Walküre in Mexico City, she was stricken by paralysis. To Minneapolis she went for treatment by famed Australian Nurse Elizabeth Kenny, began taking exercises on which she spends almost four hours daily. She also improved the time by perfecting the role of Isolde in the original German, which she had previously sung only in French...