Word: brackish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honolulu's red-light district is small and sad-20 frame houses straggling along alleys near a brackish river called Nuuanu Stream. But since Pearl Harbor it has profited fabulously because thousands of soldiers, sailors and civilian workers have funneled into the Island of Oahu. The Army & Navy, which cracked down on open prostitution in the continental U.S., had winked at it in Honolulu, perhaps because the venereal rate remained extremely...
...four long weeks he had slept twelve hours every night in the indolent air of Hobcaw Barony, Bernard Baruch's 23,000-acre South Carolina plantation, 60 miles north of Charleston. He had sunned himself on the pier that juts out into the brackish waters of Winyah Bay. He had cast for bass in plantation ponds, gone crabbing and snagged eels from the pier, fished up & down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles...
...21st day a floating coconut provided slightly brackish milk and meat. By then, as far as he could tell, Dixon was "somewhere in the vicinity of Ireland." Trying to catch another albatross, he had upset the boat and lost his chart...
This was the brackish taste of defeat that American soldiers had not known in a major battle since Appomattox. To the grim, battle-weary soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur, backed up into the mountainous fastnesses of the Bataan peninsula, northwest of abandoned Manila, or desperately fending off Japanese attacks on the great harbor fortress of Corregidor, this...
Second day decided the battle. It was so hot that gun barrels blistered any hand that touched them. It was so dry that the brackish, chlorinated, half-boiling water tasted like something from a mineral spring. Nevertheless both sides fought gallantly...