Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sever or seriously impair American and British communications with Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific...
...miles across rocky, dune-ribbed desert. The three men before him jumped at the job. For ten years they had made a sport of just such traveling, spending their vacations exploring the Sahara. Within six weeks they had trained a small, tough column of British and New Zealand desert fighters, set out for the oases of Cufra...
Bouncing is nothing new to 36-year-old Edward ("Ted") William Scott, New Zealand-born editor of the bilingual Panama American. In the '20s he bounced and was bounced about the ring by leading light weights of Europe and Australasia. Bouncing out of the fight business, he caromed from job to job, ended as a reporter...
...Australia, the garbled accounts had begun to make sense. They traced the voracious course of an armed Nazi merchantman with its prison and supply ships, the Manyo Maru and the Tokyo Maru, which had been shooting up Pacific shipping lanes for weeks, bagging at least ten New Zealand, British, French and Norwegian vessels...
...Hamburg with a crew of more than 300 on April 6 while R. N. was busy rushing to Norway. She refueled from her victims and the Nazi tanker Winnetou, which she met off Africa. She carried six guns and quantities of mines, 230 of which she laid off New Zealand. "You'd be surprised," said secrecy-bound Captain Arundele, "if you knew her name...