Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instead of erasing the lines of his bomb-threatened factory in a hazy chiaroscuro of paint and props, today's camoufleur makes it look like something else (an innocent farmhouse or a block of houses). He hopes to disguise all nearby landmarks, to give the surrounding terrain an unexpected look. If his elaborate system of obfuscation causes the enemy bombardier to hesitate in the single fleeting moment when accurate aim is possible at 20,000 ft. and 400 miles per hour, the bomber may have to return amid antiaircraft fire for a second try or else go home with...
Islandia lay south of the equator. It was the southernmost tip of the Karain Continent. There is even a map of it (see cut). Its seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...
Leave It? A premature news dispatch (to the Chicago Sun) disclosed the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that air and ground forces were there "in considerable numbers." Difficult terrain, great sea distances, an aroused army and population-all these made Australia a tough target for the Japs. Nevertheless, one consideration could drive them to hazard invasion now: the conviction that, unless Australia is conquered or isolated, it will become a United Nations base for air, naval and land offensives to recapture the southwest Pacific...
...been built on a dream. The Italian Giulio Douhet had dreamed of great fleets of heavy bombers roaring over the enemy and, presto, wiping him out. And so the Japanese built heavy bombers, fleets of them. But these fleets merely nibbled at the edges of Chinese vastnesses of terrain and courage...
...From the Norwegian words slad (steep terrain) and lorn (track...