Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuity; each week's strip has been built around a separate gag and decorated with damsels as breasty and near nude as Caniff dared draw them. One strip had Caniff's famed, shapely "Burma" entertaining Yanks at a dinner at which food was hauled in by slave girls apparently unclad from the waist up. As bulge-eyed soldiers stared entranced, Burma asked: "Why don't you guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure to their flat chests. In the last panel a tough Yank, spotting...
...favor calls a dexterous slave...
...Frank, of Princeton and the University of Chicago, was a gentle guy, who carried books right to Guadal. The red-haired MacNair, big, burly and a slave laborer, was Flight Officer: he used to discuss religion and marriage and the mystery of becoming a father 6,000 miles from the delivery room. Bill Henry and Al Russell were incurable souvenir hunters who came out loaded with doodads like a couple of Cook's tourists. Ralph Weymouth, married to a French girl, talked world affairs. Neil Weary was the playboy. Dick Balenti was called The Chief because his Indian blood...
Most readers will find much of the strictly scientific exposition difficult where not unintelligible, some of the flights into pure metaphysical speculation farfetched, perfervid. But there are passages of rare poetic storytelling quality, as in the chapter on "The Amistad Mutiny," which recreates a remarkable bit of illicit slave-trade history, in which Gibbs's father, along with the aged but still eloquent John Quincy Adams, played a leading role...
...Citadel traces its origins to the tense 1820s, when South Carolina feared a slave rebellion. A garrison at first, The Citadel became a military college in 1842 after South Carolina, filled with growing Nullification spirit, asked that federal troops be withdrawn from the state...