Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this was just the beginning of full-scale attacks on the city gave the Japs a bad case of jitters. Shanghai is the main port through which they keep their continental armies supplied. To bomb Shanghai was to cut at the very roots of the Jap position in Asia...
...Coast of Asia. In January, when the Third Fleet set out again, I left the Ticonderoga for the Essex, Admiral Sher man's group flagship. January 12 was a great day. By 10:30 in the morning the Ticonderoga had got its first "well done" from Admiral Sherman - her planes had sighted a seven-ship convoy off French Indo-China, had sunk all. The fleet sank 41 ships totaling 127,000 tons that day. Said Sherman: "That Ticonderoga is a real ship." Three days later the Ti pilots shot down four Kamikaze planes headed for the Essex...
...Asia and its proud promontory, Europe, have always been one land mass. Now, with the emergence of Russia as No. 1 power in both regions, they were a single political continent. Last week this new political continent, like a vast volcanic crust, heaved and hissed, threw up craters of political lava from the smoldering core below, burned with friction at its edges, especially those edges where for ages Europe has grated against Asia-the Aegean area and the Turkish Straits...
...Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...
...Rectification of Turkey's Asia Minor frontier. This meant the cession of the Kars region (with the town of Ardahan) to Russia. The Kars area (see map), was wrested from Turkey by the Tsars in the 19th Century, given back by the Bolsheviks in 1921, when Allied forces were in control of Kars...