Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guess Which, Oikawa. On the Bonin strike, Jap shore establishments caught it, too. From Muko Jima, 580 miles from Tokyo, all the way down the 80-mile chain, cruisers and destroyers thoroughly and thoughtfully shelled every Jap base that looked worthwhile...
...peace-to bind up its wounds, to organize its resources into an impregnable, unconquerable socialist state. First of all Russia needed freedom from the fear of invasion, a cordon sanitaire, in reverse, on its western, frontiers. Henceforth, from the Arctic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea, there must be a chain of governments friendly to Russia...
...year later he was selling bootleg liquor in his three brothers' chain of Oklahoma City drug stores (Oklahoma...
...Angeles, smokers cultivated their local tobacconist as in the hungriest days of meat-and-butter scarcity. This month, Detroit's Cunningham's (chain stores) got about 70% of its July 1943 order. Asked what brands were short, an Atlanta jobber answer replied, "Lady, not to give you a short answer-all of them." Five times in five minutes the cigaret-counter girl at a Walgreen store in Chicago repeated wearily, "We have no name brands." Only in Columbia, S.C. was there an oasis in the cigaret-short South...
That afternoon I watched from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...