Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Southeast Asia commander, was now able to consider: 1) a move to cut off the Malay peninsula by a thrust through Moulmein to Bangkok; 2) a drive at southern Malaya and Singapore by way of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean...
...only the greatest but probably the ugliest in human history. The war in the Pacific is, in some respects, more savage. But the war which swept over almost the whole of Europe, much of Africa and some of the Near East, over the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic, was fought by the peoples who cradled 20th-Century civilization. It was fought with a brutality which exceeded that of primitive times...
Responsibility for maintaining the peace in the Pacific will rest largely with the U.S. The U.S. Army & Navy cannot undertake to maintain the peace without bases stretching far out into that vast ocean. At the same time, much of the world looks to the U.S. for leadership in the development of the "trusteeship" principle for colonial areas...
...Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
...Tweed held out. One by one, the other Americans were caught and beheaded or shot. His days of electric-lit caves and radios were over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start...