Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going also got tougher for the beleaguered enemy troops on Guadalcanal where American soldiers and Marines, in a possible prelude to a drive to annihilate every Jap on the island, employed heavy artillery fire yesterday west of prized Henderson airfild...
...time the first wounded came home from North Africa last week, smiling from their cots in the train that took them to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, almost a year had passed since that calm Sunday afternoon when the Mare Island Navy Yard intercepted the message: From CINCPAC to all ships present Hawaiian area: Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill...
...late E. C. Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning. It was done in the salon of the yacht, the President sitting upon a chair. ... On this occasion we put our aprons over our street clothes but we did boil the instruments." Cleveland lived for 15 years, died...
Technique. The man who related this surgical back-fence gossip with such gusto did his first operation alone-he thinks it was for hernia - on a woman at Blackwell's almshouse (now New York City's Welfare Island). He made his fortune during many years of operating on five or more patients a day, becoming the grand old man of Manhattan surgery. His limousine, with driver and red setter in front, the doctor and his sociable wife in back, is a familiar sight on tree-lined 70th Street where he lives...
...past is black, and the future scarcely brighter. Ahead lies the overwhelming task of invading the continent of Europe. We still must take Tunis and Bizerte to make our African venture reap the profits for which it was designed. Japanese island forts like Truk must be cleaned out, all we have lost must be regained, and a method of defeating the Nipponese must be devised. The Russians and Chinese must benefit from a flow of supplies from the American cornucopia. In the nation, "black markets," devastating crimps in production, and on a more lasting scale the uisheartening defeats of democracy...