Word: typhoonous
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...long could the nation hold out against the incendiary typhoon? Not long, thought some. There were rumors of peace bids in the making. But the war lords, disdaining whatever war-weariness might have come to industrialists whose factories were gutted and to civilians whose paper-&-bamboo homes were obliterated, had by no means had enough. Premier Koiso and his fanatical War Minister, Field Marshal. Gen Sugijama, drafted another emergency measure, pushed it through another emergency Diet. It ordered...
...have Manila turned into another Singapore. Actually, neither Manila Bay nor Subic Bay would be quite satisfactory, because they are on the wrong side of the island, can be entered only from the South China Sea. Leyte Bay would be better, but it is in the heart of the typhoon belt...
...Navy Department announced last week the loss of three destroyers in a recent typhoon. From the western Pacific, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod had filed this delayed dispatch under date...
...fast carrier task force of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet had retired to refuel. There had been reports of an approaching typhoon; however, most of the Fleet's aerologists had charted it considerably farther east. Then the storm began to veer erratically toward the task force. We could see that we were in for a typhoon of savage ferocity...
...Typhoon and Jungle. Whatever was back of Yamashita's appointment, it was evident that U.S. forces faced a difficult task in cleaning up Leyte, an even tougher job in winning the rest of the Philippines. One day last week a 70-m.p.h. typhoon hit Leyte briefly and rain fell to mire the jungles nearly all week. Such weather inevitably favored the defenders. The U.S. drive on land slowed down to a walk after it had overrun about 50% of the northern half of Leyte. Ormoc, the key western port where the Japs landed and deployed in a ten-mile...