Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ghormley's first objective was soon announced. It was Tulagi, one of the best harbors in the Solomons, which the Jap had held since early June for his Indies defensive screen and for a jump-off place if he should decide to head south across the Australian supply line again...
...Last week the Tribune published a nine-column defense of itself which revealed some of the testimony brought out earlier at a Navy investigation: the Washington date line on the story was phony. It originated in Chicago and was credited to Stanley Johnston, a garrulous, black-mustachioed, Australian-born opportunist who had served in the Australian Army in World War I, knocked around Europe and the Orient for 20 years, worked for the Tribune's London bureau. He came to the U.S. after the fall of France, married a former showgirl (whom he had met in Paris), and became...
...infantile paralysis (in Arkansas) may demonstrate something that doctors and parents everywhere very much want to know-how well the Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis works out in an epidemic. To Little Rock, where 25 children were down with polio, rushed a group of physiotherapists and nurses to whom the Australian nurse has been teaching her revolutionary exercise treatment (TIME, June 23, Dec. 15, 1941) in the Minneapolis General Hospital...
After a six-year postponement forced by the government (presumably for political reasons), Australian soccer players last week pushed hopeful plans for soccer recognition of the Soviets...
...only. There are no civilians left in New Guinea. Papua's white population was never more than 2,000. Those who were not taken into the Australian army, chiefly for such jobs as required dealing with natives, were evacuated six months ago and more. There are no women. Even native women have been sent back into the hills. Native men are brought in from their villages for two-month turns at simple, light labor. They wear dirty skirts called ramis and spend their idle moments combing their hair with four-pronged metal forks...