Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific had not suddenly changed in any important respect last week, except that the Japanese haa begun to cash in on four to six months' gradual preparations along their 6,000-mile defensive arc. For some time they had been building airstrips, until now there were 65 between Timor and Munda. For some time they had been moving troops to a maze of forward garrisons, until there were seven to ten divisions in line. Some of these were good troops: one division had fought several months in China against the Communist Chu Teh, another had fought through Burma, another...
Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
Bombers manned by U.S., Australian and Dutch crews struck at three transports off the Aru Islands, two other convoys near western New Guinea. Timor and Amboina were raided...
...convoys moved south through the Bismarck Sea. Allied planes, scouting and bombing as far as the Dutch East Indies and Portuguese Timor, saw disquieting signs" of Jap activity. Both General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister Curtin of Australia understood that the smashing U.S. victory in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15) had not guaranteed the security of Australia and the Allied positions in New Guinea...
...under Douglas MacArthur knew how to use what tools they had at hand. Real security could come only when planes and fuel were available in far greater quantities, and when the Japs had been completely driven out of the Solomons, New Guinea, New Britain and their important bases on Timor...