Word: australians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a ward of recovering wounded and immediately gets the doting treatment of a popularity contest winner. What he does not know, and what his wardmates do know, is that he has only a few weeks to live. Hotly spurned and colorfully insulted, his fellow patients- an American, an Australian, a New Zealander, an Englishman and an African Basuto-find their sympathy giving way to acute dislike...
...Melbourne auto plant where he works, brother Duke has been getting some sympathy. Said one Australian: "I wouldn't care if he was black as long as it didn't come off on the towel...
...troublemaker was a part-Dutch, part-Turkish adventurer, named Raymond Paul Rocco ("Turk") Westerling, a professional soldier with a checkered past. Dashing Westerling fought with Australian troops in North Africa in 1940, later with the Dutch underground in Holland. After the war he helped organize a special Dutch force which was accused of murdering thousands of Celebes islanders during mopping-up operations. Kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, he began to recruit an army of his own, now estimated at close to 10,000 Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army...
Such names had made the full descent to lower case; others had been borrowed intact, capitals and all. Prime Minister Gladstone, a busy traveler in his day, became a traveling bag. Prince 'Albert became a watch chain, a long coat and, among Australian beggars, a toe-rag worn in place of socks...