Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's sailors seethed with indignation; shore leave had been curtailed by Navy order. The Treasure Island station burst into verse with an ode beginning...
Another Enterprise "first" was her participation in the original attack on Guadalcanal, providing air cover for the first Marine landing parties. Seventeen days later she was back again to help when the Japs made their supreme bid to regain the island, sending a big task force with three or four carriers. Enterprise, another carrier and land-based Army and Marine bombers combined to turn the enemy back; aircraft from Enterprise shot down 30 Jap planes and sank...
...again-out-again Jan Valtin, 1941's best-selling tell-all (Out of the Night). The German-born ex-agent for both the Gestapo and Ogpu (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941, et seq.), onetime California jailbird who was pardoned just before Pearl Harbor, then jugged on Ellis Island six months ago as an undesirable alien, was freed on parole, faded back into the night...
Rondle* these ships of the air and these ships in the water, for the greatest war of the world is on the way. . . . One little island known to you will be a first prize of war. It will fall into the hands of the conquerors without a gun being fired in its defense. Treachery delivers it easily. From there they sweep on to islands whose beauty is known all over the world...
...sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes of the island of Guam, painted in 1942 from memories of a 1921 visit...