Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helper (in his father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What Are You Going to Do About Alf? ; Money and How It Gets that Way; Max and the White Phagocytes...
...dictator's amorous capacity is notable, even in the tropic Caribbean. One of Trujillo's friends is bediamonded, aging, Isabel Mayer. Now in her sixties, Dona Isabel is still famed for her parties and cuisine ("Have some more sea food! It's good for men"). Trujillo was at one of her parties when the infamous massacre of the Haitians occurred in 1937. Rumor has it that Dona Isabel had complained that Haitian peasants, sneaking across the border, were stealing her cattle. The Trujillo soldiery was ordered out. They smashed babies' heads against rocks, ripped pregnant women...
...Impulse. Their story was disconnected, in parts almost childish: they had robbed on impulse. They couldn't hold a factory job because they couldn't stand noise. Their tropic-thinned blood couldn't bear Detroit's winter. They had decided to go to Florida and open an orange-juice stand and they needed money...
North toward Lingayen Gulf lay the others, widening their holdings, cheering and envying the lucky outfits that had got to Manila. They were the 6th Division, the 25th ("Tropic Lightnings"), the 32nd (National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin), the 40th (National Guardsmen from California, Nevada, Utah and New York), and the 43rd (National Guardsmen from New England...
...southeast, the 25th (Major General Charles L. Mullins) was probing toward Highway 5, on which there was heavy northbound enemy traffic. In a three-day battle, the "Tropic Lightnings," as the men of the 25th style themselves, took only half the town of San Manuel. The second half was not much easier-by-passed Japs held on for days...