Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles from Palmyra Island, the B-24 in which Zamperini was a bombardier dived into the Pacific and exploded...
...distance as Japanese. Then one day a storm broke over them, flung them up on the crest of a wave and gave them a sudden, unbelievable view of a patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
...wartime liquor drought was eased last week. Five provinces doubled the ration from 26 oz. (slightly less than a quart) to 52 oz. a month; two quadrupled it from 13 to 52 oz. (Quebec's generous 80-oz. ration remained the same, and Prince Edward Island stayed...
...polio cases had reached 5,207. This was not nearly so bad as last year's 7,792, at the same date, but many U.S. areas, hard hit, were justly alarmed. A willing press spread the alarm even to areas having small cause for worry (e.g., Rhode Island, which has had no new cases recently). The worst spots...
...wore a pink tie and reminded people of "a wild night in a florist's shop," trailed Estelle like a mooning spaniel. Wolfish Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where he called a horse a goat; he had even passed beetle...