Word: australian
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...agree," Percival muttered as he surrendered 85,000 British, Indian and Australian troops into captivity, one of the worst defeats in British history and virtually a death sentence for the enfeebled empire. Yamashita promised that his 30,000 victors would not mistreat their prisoners and civilians, but butchery and rape were becoming an all too common consequence of Japanese conquests. In Singapore, which the Japanese renamed Shonan (Bright South), an estimated 5,000 Chinese were put to death. Hong Kong and Manila fared no better...
...from the British empire forced Hitler to send reinforcements to the region in February 1941. The brilliant Erwin Rommel, who had helped lead German forces in the lightning conquest of France in 1940, quickly turned back the Allied advance in Libya and in April besieged an Australian division in the strategic seaside fortress of Tobruk as troops from Britain and New Zealand retreated to Egypt. Rommel called Tobruk's defenders nothing but rabble and promised that the panzers of his fabled Afrika Korps would soon be parked by the Suez Canal...
...long ago, I was giving Bharati Mukherjee, a writer from India who now lives in Berkeley, what I call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the University of Bologna and the French editor of an African magazine. As we rounded Lake Merritt -- an urban gem endowed with islands that attract migratory waterfowl -- she said she hadn't realized that Oakland is so beautiful. I replied that a lot of us run down this city that the rappers...
Perhaps this explains why the book retains the freshness of the spoken word and is extremely accessible. It reads quickly and describes native practice and custom in simple terms. Australian translator Max Lane provides a convenient glossary of frequently used Indonesian words, but one can understand the book without referring...
...magazine covers, including portraits of Robert Bork, Pat Robertson and Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush for TIME. The other William Coupon is endlessly fascinated with ethnic groups whose cultures are as far from the mainstream as they can be. He has traveled to record dramatic images of Norwegian Lapps, , Australian Aborigines, Tarahumara Indians in Mexico and members of a dozen other groups...