Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muscular Michael Slavik, 23, decided to have another drink. To a man who has killed a dozen-or-so Japs in the jungles of Goodenough Island, Finschhaven and Sanananda, there is not much going on in Passaic, N.J. To Mike, L's Tavern in Passaic looked like a more exciting place to welcome Christmas in than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar...
When Humorist A. P. Herbert visited Newfoundland in 1943 as a member of the British Parliamentary commission, he found nothing funny about the plight of that Atlantic island. Said he of Britain's oldest colony, which temporarily gave up Dominion status in 1934: "Little Newfoundland is about the most . . . complicated puzzle in the whole imperial scene. Something of the religious, political and, indeed, industrial problems of Ireland and of India ... all the problems of empire are crammed into one . . . place...
Britain's Plan. Lord Ammon's solution would keep Newfoundland a British dependency. He did not think the island ready for self-government again, proposed instead: 1) Newfoundlanders be allowed to elect three members of the six-man commission now ruling the country; 2) substantial grants by Britain to put the country on its feet; 3) a ten-year plan to build up neglected social services and to develop resources...
Within little more than a month, they drew their first blood. Sent to protect Horn Island, one of the Forty-niners' three squadrons, the Seventh, went up one day to intercept Jap raiders, downed five without loss to themselves...
Oils and Oysters. In the 1930s, affable, active Charles Dana Gibson turned to oil painting-summers, at his island home off the Maine coast; winters at his Manhattan studio, where he worked from 9 to 4. He seldom showed and never cared for these later works...