Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill...
...should be recognized that news is not the sacred property of the press, but something in the public domain. In time of war the armed forces themselves are creators of news and have therefore a vested interest in the way it is reported and edited by the Information services. The all-important question pertaining to news and information is how victory can best be expedited by the truthful use of the news...
Target: a Powerhouse. The landing on Arawe was General MacArthur's biggest show since the Japs were turned back from Australia's doorstep. But in the counterdrive on the enemy's Oceania domain it was not yet more than, an important nibble...
...seven books Hamilton Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
...press observed that he was "the only athlete in the world who can look at 35 Rembrandts in his own home and then take a warm-up jog through 40,000 acres without leaving his own domain. Yet he is the most democratic member of [his] village-keen, alert, gracious and always ready with a quick smile and unlimited courtesy." This time he finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles...