Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into Sydney and other ports came grim human mementos of the fight already fought. The survivors came back unannounced ; Sydney did not know they were there until three battle-worn U.S. sailor-men turned up at a bar, silently downed their drinks and smashed the glasses. "You better go away," one of them told the inquisitive barkeep. "We're drinking to our shipmates that didn't come back...
...Then Sydney saw those who did come back. Some came ashore leaning on the arms of other sailormen and waving bandaged hands at the Aussies. Others lay still on their stretchers, piled with blankets. Many were badly burned...
Watching Tojo. But from the north more menacing news sifted down into Sydney's bars and restaurants. Back of his screen of islands the Jap was massing again, at Rabaul in New Britain, at Lae and Salamaua on the east coast of New Guinea, and at more remote points in the Indies. Douglas MacArthur's airmen, after a full share with the Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, went back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north...
...their best, set up baseball games and other sports in camps and pleaded for open picture houses. The unions headed that off, refused to work on Sundays, refused the offer of the Army to furnish operators and ushers. The Australian press egged on the anti-Sabbatarians. Demanded the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "Are we assembling huge armies . . . to pave the way to heaven for wowsers...
...correspondents' third battle was coverage. Australia is roughly the size of the U.S., and action is scattered around much of its frontier. Moreover, although Canberra is technically the capital, the Cabinet just as often meets in Melbourne or Sydney, and communiqués are issued all over...