Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major James, 34, the Marine Corps disclosed last week, had been bombed and strafed on an inspection trip to the Middle East last May, was under fire again in the Battle of Midway. He may be in the bitter, bloody Solomon Island offensive, dopesters said...
...When Sweater Girl Lana Turner made a sales trip to San Francisco's Treasure Island Naval Base, workers hoisted her to a platform, where she hoisted sales...
...Japanese military and police followed traditions reaching back to primitive ages . . . ranging from disregard of diplomatic courtesies to the imprisonment and torture of American and British correspondents, businessmen and missionaries, the massacre of British and American wounded at Hong Kong and Wake Island . . . the rape and slaughter of British women, including war hospital nurses." A U.S. dentist who had practiced in Hong Kong seven years. Dr. J. S. Pyne, told of Hong Kong's fall: "They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There...
...There was some reason to believe what no official account claimed: that on Guadalcanal Island the Marines had driven inland from Sealark Strait and seized or immobilized the Japs' main airdrome in the lower Solomons...
This time Captain Patterson did not reply. But the captain has a daughter-brown-haired Alicia, 34, as smart as she is pretty. Long before Pearl Harbor, in her own Long Island tabloid Newsday, she had disagreed with her father's pre-war isolationism (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week she came to his defense in a signed column (reprinted in Aunt Cissie's Times-Herald...