Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible to hold any possession, island or base, by a defense whose principal buttress is an existing sea supremacy. Unless the foundations of victory are laid by the formation of an adequate land army . . . mere sea power ... is useless except for rescue work. . . ." (Cf. Dunkirk, Crete...
...Department revealed today that Jap warships are blasting seven port cities on three southern islands, and that enemy troops are being landed at an eighth--Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao--which is "in flames...
...concerns Mitchell's effort to run a haven for oppressed bushmen on the same island that holds a Mature plantation. Inevitably, both in logic and plot, the interests conflict. Mature comes on the scene, and in his inimitable way appeases the very appeasable daughter of the south-sea utopian...
...Salvador in the Bahamas prevented some kind of outbreak. Nor did piety stop the "white gods" from swindling, kidnapping, murdering and raping Indians before they had been a month in the new world. Columbus returned to Spain triumphant in the belief that he had discovered the outer island of Japan. This was the high point of his career. The eleven years and three voyages that occupy most of Author Morison's second volume are like the thickening tragedy of blood in which there are too many acts. The perpetual, sterile hunt for gold; the extermination or enslavement...
...three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live on that island?" he asked. "Yes," said the Indian. "And are you a - damned -of a -?" asked the enraged mateo "Yes," said the Indian...