Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the 424 years after Magellan called at Guam, the people of the Marianas had little but grief at the hands of their Spanish, German and Japanese masters. But U.S. suzerainty is something different. There was word last week that an election had been held on Saipan...
...conditions in the Marianas. When he was hard-pressed he borrowed Seabees to help load bombs, and they liked it. Somehow the grim General made hard work attractive. Mechanics learned to make certain small parts whose lack had grounded planes. The General never said much-for him, a nine-word sentence is a monologue -but his men gladly toiled around the clock. The availability record of B-29s (i.e., the daily number ready to fly) rose almost to 70%, double what it had been...
...hours before Doolittle spoke, command of the U.S.-held islands in the Ryukyu chain, including Okinawa, had passed in part from Admiral Nimitz to General MacArthur. But no word of this change had come from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who made the decision. Not until week's end did MacArthur's headquarters proclaim: the Ryukyus, with the Philippines, "form a great semicircular base from which a mighty invasion force is being forged under the primary responsibility of General MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan...
Radio Yenan also had a bad word for Chungking's No. 1 ally, the U.S. American policy toward China (said Yenan) has become "definitely imperialistic"; it seeks to reduce China to a "colony or semi-colony" ; U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (who tried valiantly to bring Chungking and Yenan together) is responsible for an anti-Communist shift in U.S. policy; he had misrepresented the situation to Washington; China must now choose between the "false democracy supported by the U.S. and the real democracy sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party...
...word from the H.A.A. is that spectator travel is the real problem. Harvard-Rochester game naturally is not expected to draw anything like the crowds that would flock to an encounter between Harvard and Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth. Two of the Varsity's opponents this fall do have official games scheduled with Yale, however, and some indication of how Harvard might fare in a clash with the Eli may be found by watching Brown and Coast Guard scores...