Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for the vivid moments of danger, Pasley was dull. No liquor was drunk, no poker allowed. The men did the ship's chores, studied Eskimo dialects, read. The library was ample, largely stories of tropic exploration to while away the dark, endlessly cold nights. Larsen mostly read his collection of all the printed books and papers of all the explorers who had tried to find the Northwest Passage...
...picture post card, a Japanese carrier force of some 40 warships-three carriers, two battleships, 15 to 20 light and heavy cruisers, with destroyers, seaplane tenders, gunboats and transports-appeared north of Tulagi, approaching in a great arc spread out over almost 1,700 miles of the tropic sea. U.S. ships and U.S. planes went out to meet...
...tropic islands' American governor has "fingers that lust for gold." A U.S. newspaper reporter is "dissipated and dollar-greedy." The Nazi film captions him "a true-to-life American characterization." The rest of the cast are just miscellaneous rascals without character but "all more or less the type of the conscienceless plutocratic mammon...
...were unable to hold him down. The surgeon held with one hand and cut with the other. The soldier moaned in Chinese: "Ma ma." It was pitiful to hear the Chinese calling his mother in the same sounds we use. The doctor, his body gleaming with sweat in the tropic night heat, finished the operation, picked up the patient, carried him off in his arms, laid him on the floor in an inside room, picked up another Chinese soldier and resumed operating. The nurses rushed out to the courtyard and washed towels in a pool beneath the palm trees...
...Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...