Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to attack, for two reasons : the water is so deep that the largest ships can anchor close inshore; and it is near Manila. But from the beachhead the roads pass through slits in the mountains, cross deep defiles over bridges that could be destroyed. And, since it is closer to the capital, a heavy defending force could quickly be moved south to fend off attack at the beach itself...
...with the Iron Guardists expelled from the Government and replaced by an Army-dominated Cabinet (only two civilians held portfolios), Premier General Ion Antonescu declared the complete restoration of order was at hand, announced his design for the future: at home, a Nazi-Fascist State; abroad, closer ties with the Axis...
VICHY--Restoration to power of Pierre Laval "with even greater authority" than before his ousting as French Vice-Premier on Dec. 14, and perhaps a completely new Vichy cabinet pledged to closer collaboration with Adolf Hitler appeared imminent tonight...
...routine, and a romance-starved middle-aged woman beginning and ending a hopeless affair in a railroad station restaurant. By the middle '30s it had become clear that while Gertrude Lawrence might not be the perfect understudy for Katharine Cornell, the versatile Miss Lawrence could come a great deal closer to putting across Juliet than Miss Cornell could to putting across Someone to Watch Over...
BUCHAREST-Hundreds of Iron Guard rebels were herded before a court martial today, many condemned to death for last week's rebellion, as Premier General Ion Antoneseu announced that he will swing Rumania into "closer community" with the Rome-Berlin axis...