Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arresting ten German saboteurs who landed from submarines along the Atlantic coastline; trapping a 33-man spy ring in Manhattan with the help of movie cameras and a trick mirror. All through the war, FBI agents helped man a radio station which Nazi agents had set up on Long Island, and saw to it that Berlin received just the transmissions the U.S. wanted it to hear...
...Japanese doubted that Asahi would succeed. Only five months ago, when escaped War Criminal Shigeyoshi Ikeda had managed to elude all official efforts to recapture him, another Asahi task force tracked him down in less than a week at his hiding place on a remote island off southern Kyushu. This saturation system of covering the news (Asahi has a staff of 1,374 reporters, 4,066 other employees) is one of the reasons why yo-year-old Asahi (circ. 3,610,209) has an even bigger audience than the New York Daily News (circ. 2,254,644), the biggest paper...
...months later, wearing a gingham dress, flat shoes and no makeup, Mindy landed a singing spot at New Rochelle's Glen Island Casino. In December 1946, Paul Whiteman signed her, took her on a nationwide tour with his National Guard radio show...
...Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor in the island's best hotel...
...custom of noisily serenading a couple on their wedding night is called a shivaree (from the French charivari) in the Mississippi Valley, belling in Western Pennsylvania, skimmelton in the Hudson Valley, horning in Rhode Island...