Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Coach Jaakko Mikkola will start an official team of only seven men, about twenty additional Crimson harriers will be at the starting line. This is to determine who will run in the all-important race next week with Holy Cross and Rhode Island, last year's national champions...
WASHINGTON--The Japanese, in a new burst of activity in the Solomons, have landed "small reinforcements" on the key American-held island of Guadalcanal but U. S. Marines are maintaining their hard-won positions, the Navy reported tonight at a communique which hinted another major battle in the making...
...officer commanding that island said his forces couldn't hold it indefinitely against a strong attack: the place is not big enough. "But the troops just pray for the Japs to come. They think they could make them pay a hell of a price, like the marines on Wake Island. They want to see what their guns and planes can really...
Fauna & Flora. The most exotic feature of the islands is the bird life. Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...
These men of the islands represent every State. The smallest island has soldiers from 35 States on its roster, but Alabama and Connecticut predominate. Their devotion to duty is strong. Their life is lonely and boresome, but they know they are doing a job. In their tents or their barracks at night they are constantly and rashly offering $10 for a chocolate malted or $20 for a glimpse of a blonde. They tell each other they would give a cool million dollars, perhaps a billion, to get back home "just for a week or two." But they stick hard...