Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape Endaiadere, at Gona, at Buna Mission, on the flanks of the Buna airstrip, on the track from Soputa to Cape Sanananda, everywhere the enemy has picked his own positions. He has established concrete gun-pits and dug grenade-proof, mortar-proof nests beneath the roots of the giant jungle trees. He has put keeneyed snipers in hundreds of treetops. He has mown down the grass and jungles to give lanes of sweeping fire to his guns. From such positions companies can hold up battalions, and battalions can resist divisions...
Diligently elegant Columnist Lucius Beebe and his swirly cape stayed away, 70-year-old Lady Decies turned up without her tiara. Sartorially the opening of the Metropolitan Opera season last week was pretty much of a bust (see p. 74); but generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President...
Actually the advance was ahead of schedule. Behind the First Army Western Africa appeared to be secure to the Allies all the way down to Cape Town. Admiral Darlan broadcast the announcement that French West Africa and Dakar had come "freely under my orders." Dakar had been won at last and after a bloodless battle. Despite official fears that press comments less brutal than President Roosevelt's forthright reference to the renegade admiral might upset the apple cart, Darlan apparently was still acting in accord with General Eisenhower's plans...
Battle of Cape Esperance. On the night of Oct. 11-12, a U.S. task force of cruisers and destroyers, including the Boise, intercepted a Japanese task force, sank two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, three destroyers. The U.S. lost one destroyer...
...Chesapeake & Yorktown, 1781. Washington had long felt that naval superiority was the first requisite of victory. Off Cape Henry a French fleet under Admiral de Grasse achieved that superiority. Washington soon laid siege to Cornwallis and defeated him at Yorktown. These battles clinched victory over Britain, though the war dragged on for 25 months. Allied casualties at Yorktown: 75 killed, 199 wounded, of whom two-thirds were French...