Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinque Ports - originally Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings, later all the southeast coastal towns - dot the chalk-cliffed coast where France leans closest to the British Isles...
...powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long known Manipur for the finest pheasant shooting east of Suez. Until last week, Manipur's tough little polo ponies, twelve hands high, thundered twice a week over Imphal fields to help the officers pass...
...newsmakers months before other correspondents arrived on the scene (there were forty in India by the following spring, and pretty soon our Army was all over the place). Fisher flew with the Air Service Command on one of its first surveys to plan the American airbases which now dot India, and at one time or another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace all his own with 16 servants in green livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest...
...abandon ship. As the boats pulled away and the ship settled in the water, ablaze from end to end, the survivors heard a weird sound. The skipper had propped himself up, got hold of the whistle lanyard with his good arm and sent his last salute−dot-dot-dot-dash−the Morse code V for Victory...
Even more fanciful was Miss Willson's orange, pink, green and yellow Pelican (she probably never saw one), tattooed with conspicuous crosshatchings, line-and-dot motifs, gaudy flowers...