Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhode Islanders who gathered in Providence's Roger Williams Park last week for an old-fashioned "Sunday in the Park" had a birthday to celebrate. In ten years, the Blue Cross (hospital insurance) plan had covered 532,000 subscribers-70% of all Rhode Islanders and 75% of all eligibles. In no other state had the plan been so successful. But something was missing: Rhode Island Blue Cross still could not cover doctors' fees...
...four years, Blue Cross had been trying to get the Rhode Island Medical Society's approval (required by state law) for a nonprofit, surgical insurance plan. Time & again the doctors vetoed Blue Cross proposals, often on technical quibbles. But the society had approved a limited plan covering only surgical fees. Skimpy as it was, Blue Cross offered this to its subscribers...
...making and pyramid-building, set up a cultural tremor that lapped most of the world. Traders, explorers, fugitives and raiders carried the techniques with them, just as their modern equivalents carry the catching customs of modern industrialism. Probably faint cultural ripples, relayed slowly from people to people, and from island to island for thousands of years, finally crossed the ocean...
Beginning with the rusty old excuse of a fire at sea, Lagoon beaches two little British tykes, aged seven and eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
Letting the sobs fall where they may, misty-eyed Author Gallico (who now lives in England) seems to be trying to explain why so many G.I.s enthused over, and sometimes married European women. Jerry's Long Island fiancee "combined such perfection of physical beauty, flawlessness of character, uprightness, and unapproachable purity that it was difficult for him to regard her as human." What Jerry liked about WAAF Patches, on the other hand, was not only her attitude about sex but "her silences and her presence, because they were soothing. The thing was, with a little mouse like that...