Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specter of divorce again loomed in the shadow of Buckingham Palace when Australian-born Lieut. Commander Michael Parker, 36, wartime sidekick of Prince Philip and his former private secretary, was sued by his wife on grounds of adultery. Party-loving Mike Parker resigned his palace job last February, a few hours after word leaked of the Parkers' separation...
...concentration." Flying in, they had glimpsed the Trojan plains where 3,000 years earlier Achilles fought Hector for mastery over the straits dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open a supply route to their Czarist allies. Within the game's allotted three days, the Marines seized the road leading to the Dardanelles straits, the goal which the Anzacs of 1915 had glimpsed...
With a fine command of Irish idiom, Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush...
...irons, rumors came through to the New South Wales penal settlements that there was a wild white woman living among the savages. Graham was accepted as a volunteer to rescue her. She was Mrs. Fraser, wife of the master of the Stirling Castle, which had foundered off the Australian coast. Stranded in the wilderness, Mrs. Fraser was drafted into a tribe whose men roared with laughter at her inability to climb trees after honey, and sped her up the eucalyptus with blazing brands applied to her rump. She was fed on the entrails of snakes and fish...
...group of colleagues tried to persuade the U.S., Britain and Russia to explode at least one smallish atom bomb for scientific purposes during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). The effort got nowhere, partly because of public revulsion against all nuclear explosions, but in 1956 the British and Australian governments gave in advance the time and place of four military test shots in Australia's central desert. Seismologists in many countries were all set for the waves, and they gained new information from their highly detailed records...