Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really a mulish effort to hang on to a happy childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful, except in technique. In it drinks are always "refreshing," blouses are always "dainty." The story accumulates as undramatically as polyps on a coral reef, but in the end it makes a pretty fair shipwreck...
Suddenly Washington looked at the wave and grew afraid. It was mounting too high, it might spill on a reef of bad news in a spray of broken hopes. Abruptly the news changed. Washington tried to drive the wave back...
...anti-aircraftsmen. They were at 30,000 feet and they were away before pursuit could get up and after them. Australia looked harder at its own defenses on that side. If the Jap once got past the minefields between the mainland and 1,260-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, eastern Australia would be an inviting place for him to land...
...vulnerable eastern coast. But even if they win Port Moresby's excellent harbor as a concentration point for their convoys, then leap to Cape York and southward toward Brisbane, they will have a hazardous and costly job. They will have to penetrate the long, jagged Great Barrier Reef, whose entrances have been well mined. Their transports and warships should be under continuous air assault from land-based planes. One consideration can make the Japs risk such a venture: if they succeed, they will then be within bomber range of Australia's southern heart...
...they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have on the Queensland coast, would get a take-off point...