Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land troops pecking away at him, an invader would have little chance for a flanking movement. If he turned to the east, he would be in country still largely unexplored, with few and primitive roads. If he turned to the west and south he would have to travel through narrow valleys. But if he should break through to a point 70 miles north of Manila-whether through marshes or mountains-he would have Manila and the Philippines in dire peril. For from that point the roads are broad and straight, the country fair...
...they recruited an army even stranger than the land-a corps of Tuaregs, tall muscular men of reddish-yellow skin, long and silky black hair, small noses, delicate hands, Berbers whose women go barefaced but who themselves wear dark blue veils. They ride the extraordinary Mehari camel, which can travel 125 miles a day. They arm themselves with a straight, double-edged sword almost four feet long, daggers bound to their left forearms, and spears and leather shields...
...British convoys move slowly, only as fast as their slowest ship. Submarines go about eight to ten knots submerged, 16 to 18 on the surface. The Norwegians argue that the British should mount antisubmarine guns and anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships...
...turned explorer in 1910, for ten years wandered about the barren islands of subarctic Canada, living with Eskimos. On his later expeditions he took along a motion-picture camera, during the long winters at home with his wife cut and spliced film, trying to piece together an Eskimo travel picture...
Sailing on the seventh he will head first for Venezuela, and then travel to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, spending from ten days to two weeks in each country...