Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peacefully Inclined. One country pledged to resist aggression against Greece was Turkey, keeper of the Dardanelles and sprawling impediment on the Axis overland route to the Suez Canal and oil wells of Mosul and Iran. Turkey's astute little president, General Ismet Inönü, kept his ambassador lingering around the Kremlin in case Silent Joe Stalin should decide to speak encouragingly. Under Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, comrade under fire of the late great Kamal Ataturk and Commander in Chief of the Turkish Army, 400,000 troops crowded trains running to Adrianople, a few miles from the Bulgarian...
...centre of gravity was tending south; that Germany would soon play some taking cards in the Mediterranean area. The worst that could happen would be everything at once: invasion of Britain, a Spanish-based blow at Gibraltar, a German-supported Blitzkrieg across Egypt to the Suez Canal, an Italian drive down the Nile, turbulence in the Balkans and a diversion through Turkey, blasts here and there at Perim, Dakar, perhaps at Singapore with the help of the eager little Japanese...
...little Red-baiting, watched his support pile up. His party had already answered the Fascist charges, promised that Panama "will not commit the folly of experimenting with Fascist, Nazi or Communist doctrines." Discouraged, muttering threats to seek power by force when "legal means" had failed, Alfaro scooted for the Canal Zone two days before the elections. Last June the National Electoral Jury announced the results: Arias, 107,759; Alfaro...
...obstruction of the prostate gland, difficulty and frequency of urination . . . angina pectoris [heart disease] and high blood pressure." Dr. Young cured his prostate trouble by using a "punch" of his own invention-a straight tube with a short, curved inner end which, when passed through the urethra (urinary canal), trapped in a small window of the instrument the bar of tissue which was damming up his bladder and cut it with an inner, sliding steel tube...
...many Italian nationals (60,000) that the British announced they would have to be deported to India in batches of 250. As the week's international shocker arrived with announcement of the new tri-power Axis military pact, control of Egypt, the 100 miles of the Suez Canal and its outlets became increasingly important. In Axis hands, the Canal could allow Italian and Japanese Fleets to join in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific...