Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prop to totalitarianism, the new Cortes appeared to be no barrier to Juan's restoration. Possibly it is an evasion, but quite as likely it is a prelude. As king, Juan obviously would have to front for a sorely beset dictator...
...said about such an act for the U.S. until next fall's political battle is over; but the War Manpower Commission believes that the U.S. labor shortage will become critical by October, thinks that by year's end it must be recognized as the one big barrier holding back the U.S. war effort...
Traces of the old times still survive. At the old Persian-founded city of Derbent, on the Caspian, stands an ancient citadel, its walls and wooden, iron-framed gates forming a barrier between the mountains and the sea. The famed Georgian Military Highway, from the North Caucasus to Georgia, skirts the site of the historic ironbound Daryal gates, which in ancient days closed the Daryal Gorge. Many a solitary cliffside mountain village still has its ancient watchtowers, frowning down on all approaches...
...anti-aircraftsmen. They were at 30,000 feet and they were away before pursuit could get up and after them. Australia looked harder at its own defenses on that side. If the Jap once got past the minefields between the mainland and 1,260-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, eastern Australia would be an inviting place for him to land...
...even the short nights of summer should be no insuperable barrier to long-range operation of big bombers. With plenty of fighters on hand the R.A.F. can send off its big guns by daylight, provide them with pursuit escort until darkness, pick them up at dawn on the way home...