Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferment. Japan last week scarcely looked like the proper setting for such portentous words. The cherry blossoms were advancing northward through the islands. The first white buds had appeared at Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...
...other than Prospero, was obviously having a grand time, and that feeling was what they tried most to transmute to the audience. "We are such staff as dreams are made on" became their thesis, and they proved it. By never once allowing a touch of realism to invade their island, their patch of earth became properly ideal, enchanted...
...members of the special committee which made the survey of the Foundation have been appointed to the advisory committee. They are: Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune; Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal; Canham; Hodding Cartor, publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi); Marquis W. Childs, Washington columnist; Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal; Phillip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post; Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star; Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin; Reston; and Paul Smith...
...Luis is sure that the only fundamental cure for his island's troubles is more plants, more jobs and more goods at home. If Puerto Rico can build up industry, and get on top in her battle of production, then a growing population will be an asset instead of a liability. For Muñoz and his people the slogan is still: "Jalda Arriba...
...staff of Brooklyn Heights's red stone Church of the Holy Trinity. Young Melish's busy left-wing activities (e.g., he was chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision on the well-loved father...