Word: miasmic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ledo Road. Purpose of Uncle Joe Stilwell's latest drive-460 miles northeast of Mountbatten's southward push toward Akyab-is to march across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...
...Navy's target. Most important of them passes through the island of Guadalcanal, said to be the only spot on the Solomons where a big system of air-dromes could be established. For the rest, the Solomons are precipitously mountainous (highest peak 10,000 feet), bordered with miasmic mangrove swamps, inhabited by ebony-black natives with an incurable habit of roasting and eating white visitors...
...fact that disturbed the U.S.: this was no small-scale attempt to divert attention. The Japanese had disregarded such difficulties as long and arduous supply lines, torrential rains, miasmic fogs, 80-mile gales, scarce anchorages, flinty soil, volcanic mountains, a savage shoreline...
...time, General Hutton might well cut across into Thailand after the Jap. But it was more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...