Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Find ways to sustain a crowded island country which has lost its markets, its overseas possessions and its merchant marine...
...Democracy is on trial as it never was before, and in this island we must uphold it as we did in the dark days of 1940 and 1941, with all our hearts and all our vigilance and with all our untiring and inexhaustible strength...
...days after the old man's condemnation, the Ministry of Justice announced: "General de Gaulle . . . has commuted the death sentence ... to perpetual imprisonment." From Portalet Petain would be transferred to Sainte Marguerite Island off the Riviera. There he would have sun and warmth. His wife, freed of all charges, would join him. But he could not have his seven stars back, nor his honor...
...Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT. The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses. Residents burned their flytraps in a big public bonfire celebrating the extinction...
...Navy is a little better: 1) some 25 experts at a laboratory at Mare Island are working on strong, lightweight legs in the one & only such Government-financed research project; 2) the dental laboratory at Philadelphia's Naval Hospital is working on natural-looking false hands; 3) Lieut. Commander Lamar W. Harris, dentist at the Navy's Bethesda, Md. medical center, announced last fortnight that he had developed a one-pound, natural-looking hand that works well...