Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emilio Osmeña served with U.S. forces, was captured and executed by the Japanese. Teodoro Osmeña was killed leading a guerrilla band. José Osmeña sought the surrender of U.S. forces in the Far East, was shot by guerrillas on the island of Negros...
...Town. Season's gayest, liveliest musical, about three sailors in Manhattan and their island fling (TIME...
...Borneo's Tarakan Island last week Dutch oilfield engineers and technicians went ashore close behind the attacking Australians. With them they carried oilfield tools and equipment shipped under Lend-Lease from...
...Return. Ashore on Tarakan the scene was much the same as it had been when the island fell, three years and four months ago. The sullen, heat-soaked sky was black with pillars of smoke from the twice-wrecked oilfields. This time the Jap was scorching the earth...
...Slovenly Peter: "I will not, will not eat my soup"-and gradually wasted away to death. Augustus, it now appears, was a psychoneurotic case. In the current Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Lieut. Richard Wallen, U.S.N.R., tells of his Augustan researches at the Marine base at Parris Island, S.C. He asked groups of normal servicemen and groups of neurotics about to be discharged which foods they disliked, which ones they would actually refuse to eat. His discovery: while the normal men declared themselves willing to eat even the foods they disliked, the neurotics recoiled with tight-clamped jaws from...