Word: timorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands has the richest share: Sumatra, Java, the Celebes, most of Borneo, half of Timor and of New Guinea...
...been placed in an open boat with 18 men, "150 lb. of bread, 16 pieces of pork, each weighing 2 lb., 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles of wine ... 28 gallons of water" and set adrift. Actually his career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven off his ship in the mutiny at the Nore...
...which caused the Bounty's crew to set him adrift in an open boat in mid-Pacific, that cool, incredible heroism which enabled the boat, propelled as much by the force of Bligh's indomitable determination as by wind or oars, to reach the Dutch island of Timor, across 3,600 miles of open sea. In Mutiny on the Bounty, the magnificence of Laughton's work rests largely in the way he resolves these strangely complementary forces motivating its central character. Bligh aboard the Bounty, a pasty-faced, sharp-tongued, miserly sadist, is a splendid portrait...
...what it used to be worth in gold, while the guilder is still at full, sane value. Should Dutchmen Dance? Cold figures reveal that in 1928 England supplied 29% of all textiles bought by Queen Wilhelmina's dusky Indonesian subjects in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Soemba, Bali, Flores, Timor, Banka, Billiton, New Guinea, Madura, Lombok, the Riouw Lingga and Molukken Islands, with Japan and The Netherlands tied for second place at 26%. Since then Japan has seized the lion's share of 76%, while England and The Netherlands have been reduced to a mere 7% each. Lumping...
...like traveling over the sea with one engine. One hears all sorts of knocks and splutters, but . . . the engine and plane behaved perfectly. On the Persian Gulf I went to pieces and had to put in a day in bed. At one stage over the Timor...