Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long run, probably nothing of the Asian mainland could be held against Communism were it not for the wide arc of island groups swinging from Japan down to Australia, which offers more or less solid bases for U.S. power. The arc's northern anchor and firmest U.S. base is Japan; to it some famous real estate (Okinawa, Guam, etc.), provides secure stepping stones across the Pacific. Far more precarious are the chain's three other links...
...first Pirate to bat in the seventh. Maglie got two fast strikes past him, then fed him a low inside curve, "a pitch I had been getting Bell out with before." Bell fell away from the ball, swinging as he stepped back. He struck it on a looping arc toward the right-field foul pole, 257 ft. away. The ball landed low and inches fair for a home run, the shortest (by 40 ft.) possible homer in any National League park. Though Maglie lost his chance at Hubbell's record, by an inning and a third, the Giants...
...effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan of Arc...
...proven brood mares (like Astronomie). He has also tried some daring experiments in inbreeding. One was to mate a full brother and sister. The result was Coronation, one of the meanest-tempered horses ever to kick a groom, but winner of last year's Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe...
...this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which has become a vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...