Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender, the bases...
Only twice before had Filipinos tasted the excitement of electing a President. Never before had they enjoyed the privilege of making a choice. As he went to the polls in last week's close, tropic heat, a Filipino might reasonably feel both elated and nervous...
...tropic-marine" room permeated with salt spray...
Author Flynn gestated Showdown (Sheridan House; $2.50) in nightly, four-hour stretches over a period of nine months. The novel, laid in the South Seas, features lusts, busts, tropic moons and cheesecake. "I don't know why I did it," confessed Author Flynn (who is considering making only one movie a year so that he can devote himself to prose). "I won't make any money. Critically, I am bound to be slaughtered. If the reviewers do like it, they'll probably say it was written by somebody else...
Then, about 85 years ago, a few Americans set out to right the wrongs which a few Americans had done. Missionaries of a Boston society taught and toiled with the resentful, disease-ridden, impoverished Micronesians. Kusaie became a tropic paradise. It had no poverty or crime, almost no disease. It was a communal democracy-its village chiefs and the island king were elected by the people. Then in 1941 the Japanese sent the missionaries away...