Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of the Navy's prisoners are Marines taken at Wake Island...
...Occidental minds) and semicomic Japanese invasion of Russian territory in 1918. The Japs chose an opportune moment, when Red Russia was weak aborning, to endeavor a second time to drive the Russian bear out of the Far East. They wanted, and seized, Russia's northern half of the island of Sakhalin, the half rich in coal and oil, and added it to their southern half. In the guise of Allied intervention, they seized Vladivostok, a port worthwhile for itself and dangerously near Japan's home islands. They attempted to lodge their armies deep in southern Siberia...
...down at Buna, near the head of a mountain road, primitive but passable, that led across to Port Moresby. Thus he could get at the thorn. Once he got rid of the thorn, he could launch his attack at thinly held northern Australia or spread east through the flanking island chain as his restless, never-idle sense of movement dictated...
Sports fishermen are also hamstrung by wartime restrictions. Last year in Long Island Sound they landed more summer flounder than all commercial fishermen; in some parts of Puget Sound the private salmon catch far outweighs the industrial catch. One hitch: a fat portion of the sport catch is usually wasted; sportsmen can neither sell nor give it all away...
Garth Lafavor of Garth's Island, 150-year-old Tennessee Valley plantation, started off by believing in the eternal rightness of Garth's Island. Its 3,000 acres supported 20 Garth families of various blood relationships, and 52 families of Garth sharecroppers...