Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There could be no doubt of the outcome. Against the U.S. forces and the potential forces of its Allies stood the remnants of a Japanese navy-now little more than a task force-and an army of 4,000,000 (plus reserves and service troops) thinly spread around the stolen empire...
Until now, Allied arrows of invasion in the Pacific have headed inevitably (if sometimes deviously) toward Japan. Last week, at the bottom of the Allied line of attack, Australians jabbed a small but significant arrow away from Japan and straight toward the Japs' stolen empire. Landing on the swampy, oil-rich island of Tarakan off Borneo's northeast coast, Aussie troops drove the Japanese off an airstrip. Soon Allied planes would be using it to work over the South China Sea, Borneo and The Netherlands East Indies...
...Mexico City he promised: ". . . Never more I will leave you. When I came back I will bring you to a plumber and let him put a ring which will enchain your leg to mine." When he learned that his wife's $500,000 case of jewels had been stolen, he wrote cheerfully: "Think if they had stoled Gloria!" In Fort Worth he refused to commit himself on exactly where he was: ". . . In an editorial . . . they criticise me as I never know that there was a State calling Texas ... I am not obliged to know the name...
...jazz and boogie, between bright red and yellow album covers, have stolen the record show this spring. Victor has issued six jazz albums (priced higher than its standard Red Seal records) ranging from old New Orleans Pioneer "Jelly Roll" Morton through contemporary Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton. Columbia has reissued an 18-album series featuring Louis...
Good Man Friday. A stolen gasoline generator was rigged to provide current for a light bulb and another salvaged radio. With the aid of a battered but usable typewriter, Tweed even began publication of a newspaper, the Guam Eagle, (for a circulation of five loyal Chamorros.) "My cave became a rendezvous. It was growing more comfortable all the time. ... In exchange for world news supplied by the radio and the Guam Eagle, I received a steady flow of supplies and local intelligence from a few friends." All this had to be abandoned hastily when Tweed discovered that the Chamorro...