Word: typhoonous
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Rescue by Water. In the next four days Hibok-Hibok erupted four more times and threatened to devastate the entire 96-sq.-mi. island. To make matters worse, a typhoon raked the island, impeding rescue operations and killing dozens more. By week's end emergency crews from Manila, 450 miles to the north, and from Mindanao had recovered 266 bodies, estimated that 1,500 more were entombed in lava. The Philippine government used warships, fishing craft, even outrigger canoes to evacuate Camiguenos by the thousands from the island. But many of the elders, unshaken in their belief, refused...
...handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that Captain Queeg was not enough of a seaman to save the rusty, 1918-model Caine. When steady Lieut. Maryk, the executive officer, relieved the impotent captain under ticklish Article 184* of Navy Regulations...
...dawn air is heavy and still; a typhoon is expected. From the citadel high over Moncay, the réveil sounds. Men of the French Foreign Legion tumble out of bed muttering in French, German, all the languages of Europe. Down in the dark valley across the shallow, gravelly Song Kalong River, dividing line between Indo-China and Red China, there is also a stirring. Guards in new olive-green uniforms are running up a red flag with one big white star in the corner and four small stars. They are Chinese Communist soldiers, three battalions of them...
...column? Impossible! With one company away on an island-clearing operation, there's only one company of Legionnaires left to hold Moncay citadel, as the Viet Minh doubtless know. Towards morning the explosions stop. The air is warm and heavy and very still. The meteorological report forecasts a typhoon...
Briefing. At Sasebo, we waited 2½ hours for MacArthur's command ship; typhoon seas had delayed it. As soon as it docked we put to sea. Next day MacArthur invited the correspondents to the cabin of the task force commander, Rear Admiral James Doyle. The general seemed somewhat worn by the buffeting the ship was taking from the rough waters. In a low voice he explained the strategy behind the coming operation...