Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
...hurry, but not in too great a hurry. It was two months before the monsoons. The weather was fine now, for the Jap. It was so hot that a soldier could not lay his hand on a tank in the sun. Crashing through tindery bamboo thickets and dry rice paddies, the tanks raised clouds of dust, scaring the paddy birds and parrots. Burma's valleys run north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could be sent west without much trouble. One force crossed...
With the new poles, Crimson vaulters will be able to grasp the weapon further up, and will thus get more distance and hoist out of the bamboo rods...
Irrepressible American humor bubbled up out of the Jap-infested bamboo jungles of Bataan Peninsula last week. It had broad sweeps of satire, muted undertones of tragedy...
...herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist without a descendant of the white founders watching over them from the ancestral mansion. For two hours, Madeleine chases Stirling from cave to bamboo-tree, limping rather creditably through a script so bad that it makes even the talented Flora Robson appear ridiculous...