Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...opposition to Dutch rule. In 1926 the Dutch made a major blunder. In suppressing a Communist uprising, they exiled 4,500 Indonesians, without trial, to New Guinea. Soekarno became an uncompromising (but nonCommunist) nationalist, reached out for power, achieved a considerable following before being exiled to Flores Island...
Exit Laughing. In Chile Island, Chile, Narcisco Quezada and Friend Violeta Munoz confessed that they had tied Violeta's husband to a table, tickled his feet until he choked to death with laughter...
...generations the fisherfolk of Galway had heard the ancient tale, how one day an island city which sank off Connemara would rise again from...
Ernest Hemingway was having the time of his life. Just arrived in Manhattan from Idaho, where he had been shooting duck, he skipped off to Gardiner's Island, N.Y. as the guest of Poloist Winston Guest, to shoot duck...