Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading plastic surgeon begins a three-month lecture tour in the U.S. and Canada. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "Archie" McIndoe, a modest, broad-backed man of 48, will address an alumni association filled with old classmates and students. (He went to Mayo from New Zealand on a fellowship in 1924 and stayed on to teach...
Namely. In London, the Times warned the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch, Wales, that it had a close challenger: a correspondent had discovered a hilltop in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu...
After an eleven-year interruption, Helen Keller was back at an old job in Tokyo. She wound up a five months' tour of institutions for the deaf & blind in New Zealand and Australia, flew into Japan, at General MacArthur's request, to raise a fund for blind Japanese...
...islanders asked Britain's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, lanky Sir Leslie Brian Freeston. Said he: if Pitcairn Islanders would build a school, the British would promise to keep it going in perpetuity. And to show he meant it, his office placed an ad in New Zealand's Education Gazette for a new teacher...
...hero of Ape and Essence, as pallid as most of Huxley's heroes, is Dr. Alfred Poole, a mother-dominated scientist with a vast intellect and a recessive sex drive. On an expedition from New Zealand (one of the few spots, in the 22nd Century, that has escaped the atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians...