Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Bill Morris and his men were driven from a gully. Too late, Morris remembered that he had left behind his pack with a fruit cake just received from his mother. Next night he led a patrol back to the gully, found the fruit cake, still uncut, lugged...
They had been philosophically submissive during two years of Jap rule, had suffered nothing worse than occasional hunger when the conqueror took their babai (taro), pigs, chickens and catches of fish, and reduced them to sucking pandanus fruit and coconut milk. Now, back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced...
...hardest; they are now increasingly pleasant." The meals, the weather, the prisoners' health, the social life, reported Halsema, were all pretty dandy. "Camp food is exotic," he wrote, "and we're used to it: rice, all you can eat, stew with some meat, native vegetables, occasional tropical fruit." For fun, said Halsema, there was always bridge, poker, pinochle, chess, handicrafts, and a weekly entertainment. "Fortunately there is plenty of work. . . . Work is satisfying. . . . There's a big crew on the hill . . . getting out firewood for the stoves, good healthy outdoor labor." Further, the camp...
...have sent only one pound of butter out of every hundred and that has gone to Russia (chiefly for convalescent soldiers). On less critical foods the drain has been greater . . . twelve pounds of pork in every hundred, ten eggs per hundred, 18% of our dried fruit...
...makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach...