Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stinson's only passenger, a Marine corporal, had never flown a plane. With the dual controls, he managed to pull the light plane out of its dive. After he had sweated out 30 minutes of level flight, the pilot came to and landed on another island, 15 miles away...
...General Millard F. Harmon was doubling in brass as deputy commander of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force and as commander, Strategic Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas. For the present, he had to use his 6-243 (and occasionally some of his precious 6-295) to keep hammering at Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been won, Harmon could use 8-24 Liberators alongside their bigger cousins against...
...cannot help sighing over the end of 700 years of English history. For these great houses, next to our cathedrals and parish churches, are the most beautiful things we have to show to a visiting stranger, and they are a moving picture, of our island history. . . . What is to become of these pathetic white elephants which can neither be kept up nor sold...
...vast American armada which seized Eire in 1945 invaded Britain and liberated the island from the Nazi domination. . . . The Chamberlain Government returned to London from its exile in Ottawa. . . . The old Parliament reassembled for the first time since that day in 1942 when Hitler had sat in the Speaker's chair and Mr. James Maxton [sharp-tongued Labor M.P.] had been shot dead as he rushed forward to brain the Führer with the Mace...
...town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Times Square, from a flock of night spots to Coney Island. Wherever it goes, uptown or down, it shoves dullness off the curbstone...