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...through the bush to avoid white men's towns. But the wet season with its cockeye bobs (man-eating storms) turned his plans topsy-turvy. Lost for days, his horses gone, Norman was picked up by a band of aborigines and comforted: "Proper good country dis one. Plenty kangaroo, plenty buffalo, plenty bandicoot, plenty yam, plenty goose, plenty duck, plenty lubra [squaws], plenty corroboree [dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...pesky wallaby (small kangaroo) ran in front of his Hying Fortress as it took off, broke a hydraulic line on the landing gear. Flames from the exhaust fired the fluid. In a few seconds, the fire set off the bomb load and all on board were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Irony of War | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Army wouldn't laugh their heads off, I would like to suggest that Dali be commissioned to run up and down between the tent-rows in Africa- to scare away the scorpions and snakes, or bite the lizards and kangaroo rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Paper Warriors | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...when the dashing, young American pilot came into Agedabia, he landed downwind and bounced across the rough field like a kangaroo and poked the plane's nose into the mud. . . . The lashings on the gasoline drums broke, and strong men groaned as they lifted the drums off me. I groaned, too. And in the week I spent with broken ribs in a hospital tent at Agedabia, I missed the day we moved into El Agheila. . . . But, lying in that tent, surrounded by men who had been blown up by mines, I discovered that no matter how badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Morrison Reports | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Thru God's grace Mike and I are still together. Forded river near fork. . . . Spent last night in chute. Mike caught up. Spent night on hillside, rain starting at four, under small rock. . . . Rained early. Saw wallaby [a small kangaroo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thru God's Grace | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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