Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Russian armies should be destroyed; that they should be encircled, trapped or minced to pieces by superior steel. No wild imagining is needed to assess the results. Hitler could return westward with countless legions, unnumbered machines, could devote all his energies to settling his accounts with this island. He would have riches to gamble and weapons to squander. This conclusion we dare not in our senses contemplate...
...Quelpart Island, off the Korean peninsula's southern tip, the Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
...British arrested hundreds of Hurs, promptly executed 27 ringleaders. But they had done more than a mop-up job on rampaging natives. From his sand-island G.H.Q. dominating the jungle, Major General Roland Richardson authorized this statement: "The whole operation may be regarded as valuable practice for jungle warfare elsewhere, in which the British forces so far have been at a marked disadvantage...
...Lightning had been flashing through the hot city for hours, brighter & brighter, and about the time they got the young man to Sydenham Hospital the thunder crashed and the rain came down. They called Acting Chief Surgeon Dr. Edward Finestone in from Far Rockaway, 24 miles out on Long Island. Dr. Finestone, driving in fast through the storm, had a bad skid and a slight crackup, but he got to the hospital...
...England has been hardest hit. At least three Boston fishing boats have been sunk; the Government has already taken 76 of the largest boats and more are sure to go. There is practically no fishing on George's Bank (200 miles out of Boston) or Sable Island Bank (500 miles out), for centuries the nearest and best East Coast fishing grounds. Thus Boston's long, scale-paved Fish Pier took in only 114,664,000 lb. in the first six months of this year v. 153,838,000 lb. a year ago. The June catch was only...