Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also closed the road which linked Bar Harbor with a bridge to the mainland. At nightfall, with the town all but cut off, with electricity gone and with thick, fire-reddened clouds of smoke whipping everywhere, 2,000 people-mostly women and children-gathered on the town pier. Fishing boats and Coast Guard vessels, some of which were forced to maneuver through the smoke with radar, began taking them aboard. Hundreds crossed to the mainland through heavy, gale-driven seas. Then Army bulldozers opened the road and automobiles began running the fiery gauntlet again...
...Fortnight ago, in accordance with a traditional dedication, the workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...
...birds they can hold. What the guano birds need now, says Señor Llosa, is more staging areas. The climate of southern Peru is favorable; the sea is full of fish. But there are virtually no islands there, and when the birds try to nest on the mainland, foxes eat their eggs. So Señor Llosa is building ten-foot walls across the peninsulas, making artificial islands for the birds to use as bases. He even dreams of parking the birds some day far at sea on anchored, floating islands...
Trim & Adaptable. The State Department eyed a somewhat brighter spot in the Far East-the trim, adaptable, hardworking nation of Japan. Japan was under the direct and all-but-absolute control of the U.S. Strategically, it flanked the Asiatic mainland as England flanked Europe. What was more, Japan had a powerful spokesman, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...guards weren't slapping faces in anger, they were patting bottoms lewdly. Yet some of those same guards would unexpectedly share their food with the children, permit wives to see husbands in defiance of rules, even assist in smuggling provisions and medicines from friendly Asiatics on the mainland. But the kindnesses were whimsical, starvation and brutality the rule...