Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These artless British queries were inspired by the presence of thousands of U.S. fighting men in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand. OWI undertakes to answer such questions in a weekly radio program called Answering You. In England the program has risen to fourth place on BBC's "inspirational" list, with an estimated audience...
...once, energetic Eleanor Roosevelt, in San Francisco last week after her 23,000-mile voyage to Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific battle stations, looked tired. Reporters found her thin. They missed her usual warmhearted gusto. Lines of weariness were traced on her face, netting her friendly blue eyes in a delicate web of fatigue. They were eyes that had seen much-perhaps too much for one who, along with her several other distinctions, is a mother with four sons in uniform...
...Shaws traveled. Around the world she dodged reporters, lost herself in crowds, collected clippings about her husband. Afterwards she told a reporter: "When I get really old I should like to live in New Zealand. It's a perfect country where the people have no art at all and therefore no artistic inhibitions...
...teller of the tale of Aitutaki was Archie Campbell, onetime hard-boiled Seattle Post Intelligencer newsman, now second engineer in a Liberty ship. A world-traveled cynic, Campbell had always scoffed at South Sea legends. But now he testifies: New Zealand owns the island, but has governed it by leaving it alone. The normal population includes 2,000 Polynesians-strong, handsome men & women. Aitutaki has no commercial value and in peacetime is almost never seen by white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding...
...forthright, energetic, middle-aged lady and she was more exciting than anything the antipodes had seen in many a down-under moon. Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the U.S., leaving New Zealand breathless and charmed by her energetic gusto, flew on to Australia...