Word: according
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WASHINGTON--The United States has reached a naval accord with the French High Commissioner of Martinique, strategic French Caribbean naval base, after secret consultations at Port de France, it was revealed officially tonight...
...would appear to be very strategic. But they split on the question of whether Japan might be able to take Singapore. Howe said that the thin Malayan peninsula, with its thick jungles, made a successful land attack more improbable than "Hitler taking Europe"; Chamberlin and Reischauer were not in accord with this view, and Chamberlin pointed out that the Japanese had been trained for jungle fighting...
...buyers. But Nelson has plans for underground shelters, too, which the Defense Council has tentatively approved. Meanwhile in Hollywood Cinemactress Deanna Durbin is already building a house with a bombproof shelter. Miss Durbin said she didn't order it; the architect just put it in of his own accord...
...miles to the Philippine Islands, one of the longest open-boat trips since Captain Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in 1789. The starving survivors kept themselves alive by cannibalism. The menu: the chief engineer and a fireman-who (said the survivors) died of their own accord...
...important decision of his. This is incorrect. My son made up his own mind on his own initiative. This was as it should have been, but I warmly approved his act. Nothing in it implied disagreement with my general views on American foreign policy, with which he is in accord. I have always applauded men who risk their lives for something in which they believe. I have wanted more, not less, American participation in services of human helpfulness...