Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger considerations. On the whole vast sweep of Russia's western and southwestern border, Turkey is the one country without a pro-Soviet regime. Russia wants to anchor the line. If its pressure could bring a Moscow-influenced Turkish government, Russia might forget her claim to the coastal region...
Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver. Colorado University's whip-smart Robert Stearns cried havoc on his coastal rivals for tidal waves, earthquakes and tornadoes. Tongue in cheek, San Francisco's urbane Mayor Roger Lapham recalled being frozen fast in the harbors of both Boston and Philadelphia in his early yachting days...
Bellamy's best argument had a pessimistic undertone: Boston, Philadelphia and the other coastal cities were within easy reach of atomic bombings. "In the Black Hills there are no military objectives, and the gentlemen who are striving for the peace of the world can live at peace while the atomic bombs are falling...
...Exempted by Morrison: coastal and international shipping...
Counter-radar licked Japanese naval radar, but its toughest enemy was the enormous radar network the Nazis spread over Europe. German coastal radars watched for Allied ships and planes. Thousands of inland "Wurzburgs" (radars shaped like giant electric heaters) aimed the Nazis' antiaircraft guns with fiendish precision. If the Wurzburgs had not been scotched by counter-radar, they might well have defeated Allied bombing...