Word: detachedness
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While Kenney's air force in the south pounded the Celebes and Halmahera, oil-rich Balikpapan in Borneo and the supply center of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, a detached force of Pacific Fleet battleships steamed north to tiny (740 acres) Marcus Island, little more than 1,100 miles...
Bearded, blue-eyed Aristide Maillol (pronounced Ma-yoll) had reached the great age of 82. For a generation and more he had held an artistic eminence taken over from his friend and early supporter, the late, great Auguste Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of...
Last week Colonel Parham, detached from the Ninth, was in London awaiting reassignment. The artist and two of the three correspondents were still in France.
To boss its most important new pioneering job in air combat today, the U.S. Army Air Forces last week picked one of its youngest, yeastiest generals. Burly Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay, 37, crack Flying Fortressman, was detached from the European Theater and ordered to China to take command of...
The Second Pit. Joseph in Egypt ended when Joseph, Potiphar's powerful steward, was ruined by the false accusation of Potiphar's wife. Potiphar sent him to the island fortress of Zawi-Re in Lower Egypt. When this volume opens, Joseph is a prisoner, brooding on the wreckage...