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Port Moresby, New Guinea...
Food was good; the "screws" (guards) were, within limits, kind, Nathan Leopold, 19 years old when he entered prison, did service as a malaria guinea pig. increased his knowledge of foreign languages to 27, and acquired the elements of, or at least a desire for. religious faith. But readers may well feel that they never saw a man who looked so listlessly at the sky. Leopold shows the clear lapse of reason by which, like most lifers, he became a collector of injustices in a place where uncommon cruelty was a common failing. In short, Leopold can tell everything about...
Church Builder Jackson was a pilot before he was a preacher, and one flying incident over New Guinea during World War II had a lot to do with his entering the ministry. One engine in his P-38 quit and he had to try for a forced landing on a tiny strip between foothills and ocean. His plan: to hit the strip so hard that the nose wheel would break and thus stop the plane quickly. The nose wheel "refused to snap for some reason or other," but Jackson managed to stop the plane anyway. "I got out and then...
...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...
...time (1948) Dutch paratroops captured President Sukarno and every member of his Cabinet except Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, who was in Sumatra and continued the fight. In 1949, worn down by Indonesian resistance and world opinion, the Dutch gave up. All of their old island possessions except West New Guinea became the Republic of Indonesia. Sukarno and his fellow revolutionaries had won independence...