Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
...Roosevelt, 33, second son of the President, now with the Army Air Forces in England ; by Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 35, after ten years, nine months of marriage, her first, his second; in Fort Worth. Mrs. Roosevelt charged desertion, cruel treatment, was awarded half of their interest in a chain of Texas radio stations and custody of their three children...
Last week Mrs. Zorah White Gristede, slim, attractive wife of an executive of the swank Gristede grocery chain, wrote the Commissioner a letter: "Concerning the children's 'playground' at Eighty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue-it's filthy, in truth more 'pen' than park and fit only for use of pigs. . . . Having seen the scrupulously clean parks of other nations of the world, maintained at a fraction of the cost of ours, I say with authority that Central Park, in toto, is a disgrace...
Less than 18 months ago, when Marines in the Solomons hung by their fingernails to the first breach in the enemy's outer chain, the enemy's naval thrusts were met desperately. Now the Navy hoped for nothing better than that the Jap should come out and fight...
...reserved man, shunning formal gatherings, he nevertheless likes to cock one foot on the desk and talk at length. He smokes incessantly-through a bamboo holder-and drinks tea without pause. He has good relations with the press (still sports his Australian Journalists Association emblem on his watch chain) and is a master at handling irate delegations. Recently a party went up from Sydney, determined to have a showdown on a union matter. When they got back, their fellows demanded a report. Lamely, the leader replied: "We never quite got to the matter you mean. Old Jack kept talking about...