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...monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Look Homeward, Angel | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Arabs in the Cistern. The $11, Eaton had understood, was to cover the whole journey, but the sheik in charge understood differently; on the second day the camel drivers went on strike. This was the first of many sit-downs ordered by the camel sheik, after each of which Eaton recorded laconically in his journal: "Pacified him with promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbary Gang Buster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...fear of his brother got too much for him. He disappeared into the desert, but was soon brought back "cringing with apology." By April 6, the invaders were within 120 miles of their objective city, Derna. Starved and thirsty on half rations, they found water in a cistern in which two presumably murdered Arabs were floating. But Hamet and his followers refused to move on without more food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbary Gang Buster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Some Would Die. We crossed to one of the long tents-the receiving ward where patients are brought first. At one end were eight operating tables where the wounded were examined immediately. The simpler operations were performed right there. The complex cases went to the cistern operating rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...Think I'm Going to Save Him." I went back through the dark to the No. 1 cistern. On Dr. Silvis' operating table was the same dirty-faced private who had been fed blood through the femoral veins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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