Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty in Hawaii National Park early Election Day, Vulcanologist Gordon MacDonald noticed telltale marks on the seismograph. After some quick calculations, he phoned Hilo police about a severe and distant earthquake. Seismic sea waves, he figured, might hit the Hawaiian Islands in about three hours...
...French-German-Italian-Hawaiian Mrs. Jacqueline Liwai Pung, wife of a Honolulu fireman and mother of two, the U.S. Women's Amateur golf championship, two and one on the 35th hole, over Shirley McFedters, University of California at Los Angeles coed; in Portland, Ore. Roly-poly (210 lbs.. 5 ft. 3 in.) Mrs. Pung, 29, after winning was given a buss and a lei by U.S. Golf Association President Totten Heffelfinger, who asked her to bring her hula gear to next year's tournament...
...Japan, 38-year-old Hanama Tasaki runs a ham and bacon business by day, a nightclub after sundown. He also writes novels. Hawaiian-born, U.S.-educated and a veteran of the Japanese army, he made his U.S. fiction debut in 1950 with Long the Imperial Way, a ploddingly serious novel about Japanese infantrymen. To his publishers, at least, the book set Tasaki up as "the principal interpreter of present-day Japan to the United States...
...Fair grounds, Swimmer Moore plunged into the water for the final 400-meter free-style heat of the U.S. Olympic tryouts. Marshall, who will compete for Australia in the Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet, at the 200-meter mark by four...
...will probably run into good pitching, for both of its opponents have already defeated Yale. In today's contest, Gymnast coach Archie Allen plans to start either righthander Jim Pelcher, who allowed the Elis only two hits on April 17th, or Hank Tominaga, a diminutive Hawaiian southpaw with a good fast ball and curve...