Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Natives Out, Beer In. When the Americans turned up at Ulithi, the 300 primitive natives and their paralytic King Ueg (pronounced Weg) agreed to move from Mogmog to mile-long Fassarai, one of the atoll's southern islands. (The Japs had taken the able-bodied natives with them.) Leaving a doctor and a chief pharmacist's mate to administer to the people on Fassarai, the Navy put the Seabees to work. The result was something new in naval history: a vast service station enabling entire fleets to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from their main, landmass bases. Many...
...with his witch doctors, snuffing the air in the royal courtyard, where his dogs gnawed rotting carcasses (of animals, mostly). Sometimes he climbed into his throne (a wheel chair) and dispensed judgment in the good old Matabele way-flinging to the crocodiles a slave who had sipped the royal beer, or impaling an unfaithful wife. He had "a benignant smile" and was popular with his people...
Candidates for the News Board of the SERVICE NEWS should report to the CRIMSON building on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Men who missed the opener on Tuesday will have their last chance on Monday evening at 7:30. Beer and coke will still be on hand...
...Portsmouth, had been fishing. He had had a date with Faith Coombs, an 18-year-old high-school girl who looked after the Milton children. He was late; Faith was not there. Except for the children upstairs, asleep, the Milton house was empty. Al raided the icebox for some beer and he and James sat down to drink...
...learned editorial the science-minded New York Times painstakingly picked flaws in the sun-gun idea, concluded austerely: "There is reason ... to believe that the rocket experts were merely dreaming over their ersatz beer." But what the Germans had already done was amazing enough.*Lieut. Colonel Keck'revealed a long list of discovered Nazi contraptions. Items...