Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fish-fries followed fishing. For dessert there were bowls of Manitoulin blueberries. In the background constantly hovered Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the U.S. Army, Secret Service men. The inhabitants of Birch Island Station (three summer cottages, two farm dwellings, one church) kept mum about the Old Fisherman, the warplanes that zoomed...
Germans Backward. On the retreat to Messina there was no rest for the Germans. The big guns of U.S. warships tore into them on the north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...
Outlook. Since General Vandegrift's Marines made their frontal assault on Guadalcanal, the U.S. has learned much about island warfare. The new tactics are to surround the Jap bases in overwhelming force and in combined operation to squeeze the life out of them. Though the capture of Munda was somewhat behind schedule, the Japs were left no secondary retreats, would soon be cleaned up. Gen eral Vandegrift, with his spearhead of Amphibious Marines, looked forward to future operations conducted by "all of us, a highly cooperative team...
...miss the boardwalk at Jones each . . . Atlantic City . . . why not ankle out to 'Catabonie Beach'? They call it the Coney Island of North Africa...
...PARADIS PERDU' A SES FILLES. Jim finally located Niobe in the 42nd Street Library copying Munkacsy's painting of Milton in his blindness dictating to his daughters. She got away. Next time Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...