Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter joke, Minnesota's labor-baiting Representative Harold Knutson introduced a bill to pay General MacArthur's besieged soldiers time-and-a-half for overtime, double-time for fighting on Sunday. On Bataan peninsula, MacArthur's men heard the joke, calculated that the total sum due would purchase 500 fighter planes. A suggestion was cabled home (via TIME'S correspondent): if Congress wished to do them any favors, please send the planes instead of the overtime checks...
...Burma's defenders, second only to Douglas MacArthur and the men of Bataan Peninsula in their disregard of overwhelming odds (see p. 26), were really rolling...
Instead of cheerful tales about hypothetical Allied coups, the press should tell America exactly where she stands. What was the extent of the damage at Pearl Harbor? If the Pacific Fleet was not hopelessly crippled, why do the Japs continuously control the seas around the Malay Peninsula and Philippines? And if the newspapers are unable to secure this information, we should certainly hear about it from the editorial pages. Unfounded complacency is a fatal substitute for fact...
...Philippine scouts last week intercepted a Japanese suicide squadron on mountainous Bataan Peninsula, hounded & harried the sabotage-bent visitors into a dense, brush-covered last-stand some 125 yards square. Behind the dense, protective foliage the little men burrowed into foxholes. Snipers tied themselves in trees. So close were the two forces that the Japs' labored breathing was clearly heard. His arm in a bloody sling, Captain C. A. Crome shouted one last ultimatum: "Surrender, you bastards, we've got you surrounded!" The answer floated back in perfect English: "Nerts...
...splendid palace on the peninsula of Yamato, the mighty Emperor Jimmu celebrated his various successful aggressions by offering up sacrifices to Ama-terasu-Ö-mi-Kami, sometimes known as the Sun Goddess, his great-great-grandmother. Thus was founded (so Japanese chroniclers say) the Empire of Japan...