Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Boston's supply of blood plasma greatly diminished by a Cocoaunt Grove disaster and despite an additional supply being flown in from Washington, the Boston Donor Center has sent out pleas to all Harvard students for additional contributions. So great has been the initial response that appointments cannot be made until the first of next week, but greater and greater donation will be needed as the situation grows more critical...
Blood is needed badly by the soldiers, the Center explained, because it staves off shock, coma, and death. The casualties of the Cocoaunt Grove holocaust required a tremendous amount of plasma to revive the injured from the shock brought on by burns and loss of blood...
...WILLIS Penn's Grove...
...Urgency. How could it be so important to battle for a three-by-eight-mile patch of meadow, jungle and coconut grove in an economically worthless island just across the way from nowhere...
Sitting in a cool grove of rubber trees, the Australians ravenously ate meat loaf with mashed potatoes, peach shortcake, bread and tea. Only then, as the tropic dusk came swiftly, did one Australian speak. "Give me a few days," he said, "and I'll be ready for another go at them...