Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...
...Navy Cross. He collapsed with malaria and dengue fever. Still grey with sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport...
...handiest of all weapons for getting the Jap out of his carefully revetted bunkers or sealing him in forever. The fire is thrown from the Army's improved portable flamethrower, which is superior to anything the Jap is known to have, more easily maintained, simpler, unaffected by tropic damp...
Henry Miller, whose Paris-published novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn have stirred intelligentsiacs to as much prurient curiosity and as much sour criticastery as any novels since James Joyce's Ulysses, published an appeal for charity in the New Republic. He said he wanted contributions of old clothes ("love corduroys") and watercolor materials. In Beverly Glen, near Los Angeles, the 52-year-old, free-loving, free-sponging American-from-Paris had been destitute for months. Recently he had taken up painting...
...most of the week it was ideal torpedo weather. The high tropic moon flaunted itself above masses of gauzy clouds. During these nights death passed the ships so close that we could hear 'the beating of his wings.' Some nights we had the advantage of black storms but even in dense rain and squall, weirdly lit by lightning, the Japanese snoopers sought us. One torpedo plane found us and tried to hit our flanks...