Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Being a WAVE and having been stationed in Charleston, S.C. 16 months and Parris Island four months (also South Carolina!)-and having put up with every kind of rudeness from the enlisted man on the streets and elsewhere-I can't help but admire said WACs, WAVES and Red Cross girls in their own built "aristocracy" overseas...
...colonial powers went, the Dutch were enlightened. Having sired Eurasians, they accepted them into social and political life at both ends of their 9,900-mile Amsterdam-Batavia axis. During the last 125 years, Java's native population has ballooned from four million to 44 million. The island is the globe's most densely populated land mass...
After one brief day in his Argentine Elba, the federal prison on Martin Garcia Island, Juan Domingo Perón overturned the moderates who had forced his resignation and vaulted back to the balcony of Government House. Thousands of Perón-struck workers cheered: "Viva Perón! Viva labor! Viva Argentina!" Colonel Perón did not bother to reassume his old offices or even to rejoin the army. Seven days after his return, he was still Argentina's master...
...years since his discharge as a World War I Army sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that at one point held him "streamlined horizontally...
...Lost Horizon, is a Polynesian Shangrila. It is plainly designed as a refuge for readers who have had enough of wartime realism. Two Navy flyers are floating on the Pacific in a flak-shattered PBY. One of them passes the tedious, hopeless days talking of the lush, tiny island that he dreamed of as a boy. The fish they finally catch must have been poisonous, because Gene, the navigator, dies that night. But Pilot Brooke wakes up to find the island there, just as he had always dreamed it. And when he gets ashore it grows greener and lusher. Seasoned...