Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopes v. Facts. Admiral Vickery had history on his side. After World War I, the big U.S. fleet of mass-produced Hog Island freighters gathered rust and barnacles while other nations, with faster, better ships, took over the world's trade...
...Germans were beaten in the Sicilian skies as decisively as they were beaten on the island's soil. Said Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the Northwest African Tactical Air Force: "[The Luftwaffe] has been knocked out of the skies so far as we are concerned." How completely the Allies dominated the seas was shown last week when a British task force steamed up to the Gulf of Naples, shelled naval installations there and returned without a scratch...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...other races, unimaginative Gunder had to have competition to pace him if he was still to beat his world mark. For the Randall's Island show, two crack U.S. runners turned out: young Bill Hulse (whom Hägg regards as the most promising American miler) and Divinity Student Gilbert Dodds...
Before this meeting, it appears that there is about as much material here as there has been for the past few years. Captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell is at Parris Island, but the war has brought some good-looking prospects to the banks of the Charles, including two whispered-about heroes from Minnesota. And Swede Anderson, George Hibbard, Paul Perkins, and a few others are still around from last year's squad...