Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trespassing" signs on eleven islands and one bay in the Pacific, Alaska and Caribbean defense areas. After May 14, Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico; Guam, Rose and Tutuila Islands in Samoa; Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Wake Islands and Kingman Reef (stepping stones between Honolulu's Pearl Harbor and the Philippines); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; Kiska and Unalaska Islands, off Alaska, will be forbidden ground to all but U. S. armed forces...
This neo-paganism the Confessionals have fought fervently, the Lutheran Council less uncompromisingly. A reef-dodging diplomat, Bishop Marahrens is one of the three pre-Hitler Protestant bishops who has held on to his post, typifies an attitude of something-less-than-martyrdom. Under him, middle-of-the-road Protestantism's steady declaration has been: "Our bishop and council remain the legal authority of our church. . . . The Lord of the Christian Church is Christ, not Hitler...
...miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
...Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are: 1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland. 2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica. 3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland. 4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes. 5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas...