Word: lagoons
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Clearly indicated was the lagoon of some remote atoll. Likely choices: Ulithi, in the western Carolines; Bikar, in the northern Marshalls, or Pokaakku (Taongi) between Bikar and Wake...
...listeners will get none of this pathos in the American version which Bing Crosby recorded last week. Chappell got Tin Pan Alley's Jack (That's Win Darkies Were Born, Sleepy Lagoon) Lawrence to write these syrupy syllables...
...gave them a sudden, unbelievable view of a patch of green. By that time, incapable even of joy, Zamperini could only say flatly: "There's an island over there." They paddled weakly all that day and night, until a second storm swept them inside a coral-ringed lagoon in the Marshalls. It was the 47th day. Spotted by Japanese fishermen, Zamperini and Philips were lifted from...
...enemy waters, began to count on an increasing chance of rescue. Pilots who were unable to return to their bases always knew where a crash landing or a parachute jump could be made with some hope. Float planes were used where submarines could not go-as in the Truk lagoon early last year, when seven pilots were taxied out by one plane. In Ormoc Bay last year five PBY Dumbos saved 142 men from a torpedoed destroyer, 56 of them in one plane. It took a three-mile run before getting...
Here is a departure from the accepted cinema idiom. People go to the movies today to relax in the cushion of familiarity, the familiarity of beautiful people in standard patterns. The cult of film actors, it appears, lagoon the lapse of the religion of perfection: yet it lapses, happily, in "The Enchanted Cottage...