Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks before election the loss or retention of a jungled island 5,000 miles away may thus materially affect the character of the next Congress and the government of many a State. These are the weeks when political candidates are at the mercy of chance. A political accident now could change a whole career, and history. Last week the political pot began to boil-and in 1942 it is no ordinary kettle...
Closer & Closer. Early in the morning of Oct. 15 the Jap swept past little Savo Island, was able to make daylight landings for the first time on the northwest tip of Guadalcanal, only 15 miles from the Marines' toehold. He paid heavily. Haggard American flyers hit a battleship, fired three transports that still burned late that afternoon. But the Jap still came. He lost 17 more planes in one attack on Henderson Field. At week's end the Jap landed artillery and brought it close enough to shell U.S. positions, now under attack from land...
After leaving Vancouver, the St. Roch rounded Alaska, entered Beaufort Sea, touched Baillie Island, went on to Cambridge Bay. She turned back to winter in Walker Bay, on the midwest coast of giant, icebound Victoria Island, went on in the spring...
Malta is worth the price for strategic reasons. Sixty miles from Sicily, the island is a constant menace to Axis supply routes in the Mediterranean. She is a base for British submarines. She is a potential base for an attack on southern Europe. And deeper than practical reasons, she has become Britain's symbol of resistance, as Stalingrad and Bataan became symbols of valor to Britain's allies...
...Napoleon arrived to loot the ancient rococo palaces and churches before he rushed on into Egypt. The French garrison held until 1800, when the English Fleet hove into view, anchored in Malta's deep harbors and took over the island...