Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the gale struck, the tug captain, not seeing the land, steered out to sea for safety. Then the chain-cable towline parted. In the rising waves and wind, two emergency hawsers snapped. Then the hull drifted out of the tugboat's sight...
Hong Kong, Manila, Formosa, Truk, rear bases in Japan proper. In the air, they have a string of airfields from Manchukuo, through China, down the Indo-China and Thailand promontory, along the Malaysian chain to Borneo, the Celebes, New Guinea and the Solomons...
...away the longest in World War II. The Nazis termed Leningrad "a doomed city" on Aug. 21, 1941, when Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb captured the fortress of Schlüsselburg on the southern tip of Lake Ladoga, thus completing a 40-mile semicircular chain south of the city. The Finns pressed down the Karelian Isthmus from the north, leaving the Russians only Lake Ladoga as a link with the rest of the Soviet Union...
Theodore Roosevelt Gamble, 33, supersalesman of war bonds. Operator of a chain of Oregon theaters (he managed five when he was 17), he ran the State's war savings staff in 1941, last year was made an assistant to Henry Morgenthau Jr. to run the nation's war bond staffs in the field...
This dissenting opinion, delivered last week by two FCC commissioners, raised again an important question of public policy for radio. It was a by-product of the approval by FCC as a whole of the sale of New England's biggest radio chain, the 21-station Yankee Network, to General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron...