Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Moscow's Literary Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...
...were perturbed by the state of the world. Denmark's Ole Svend Hamann showed a surrealist living room with a man sitting beside a radio, reading a newspaper. From his pipe rises a mushroom-shaped atomic cloud. "What is a home?" reads the picture's caption. "An island of peace where the native language is that of affection. But what alien shapes are created by the invasion of newsprint and airwaves...
That was the last link that held the Constellation and 48 lives to earth. Sometime, somehow, in the next few minutes a heavy cloud and the high peak of Mt. Redondo on Sao Miguel Island combined and snapped the threads. A truckman saw a flash of light on the mountain. Planes took off to search, and eight hours later a twisted, fire-blackened heap was sighted on the mountainside. In the Constellation's wreckage were its 48 dead, burned beyond recognition...
...these, Jasper Danckeart by name, set out from Staten Island on a bright morning in 1679. He traveled by birchbark canoc to the hamlet of Elizabethtown, where he disembarked and set out across country towards the warmer climes of the southwest. But let him tell his tale...
...prospects of victory are even dimmer this year, with both freshman and varsity squads vying for bottom on the rank-list. Losses included meets with Tufts, Holy Cross, Rhode Island State, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth...