Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Preparation. At Tarawa the Navy learned that 3,000 tons of bombs and shells (more weight-but not more explosive-than ever hit Berlin in a single raid) was not enough to knock out the Japs' coconut-log, steel and concrete fortifications. The Navy also learned that four hours of pounding is not enough...
Only after another day's pounding were the main island targets assaulted. When the troops got ashore, there was some machine-gun and sniper fire from debris and coconut trees. There were a few stubborn pockets of real resistance. But mostly there were only twisted remnants of coastal guns, shattered pillboxes, charred and broken Jap bodies. The defenders who survived the bombardment seemed dazed, frightened...
...sweeping up from the horizon. For 22 successive days the birds had come, scattering destruction around his coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill...
...have certain theories we go by. After that there is the Jesus factor - the unpredictable." Each new objective has its peculiar problem. The Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...