Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...height of his privet hedge. They said it was three feet higher than the three-foot maximum for hedges growing on public property, ordered him to slice it in half. The general refused. Came men with yardsticks, who found only four of its 14 bushes were in the public domain. The authorities relaxed in silence. ∙ ∙ Adolf Hitler has ordered the former castle of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Posen (part of Poland 1919-39) remodeled, plans to use it himself...
...sailors saw an Anglo-Dutch line of defense running for nearly one-seventh of the earth's circumference: down 400 miles of treacherous Malay coastline to the forbidding hinge at Singapore, then 3,000 miles out into the southeast until it reached the barbarous fringes of the Netherlands domain. The Japanese generals and admirals might even decide to by-pass Singapore for the time being, to take a fling directly at the Indies. If it succeeded, Japan would be safe; if it failed, Japan was through. It would be as desperate a gamble as the Spanish Armada, and just...
...Indies defense, held the bulk of an Army of 100,000 (native and European), the bulk of the new Air Force, old but fixed coastal defenses, an arsenal. And Sumatra was just as tough, with one half sheltered by Malaya, the other half lying in the strategic domain of the mighty fortress of Singapore...
Last week Leon Henderson found that his price domain ends at the water's edge. He tried to monkey with the price of coffee, and ran into the Department of State, which is in the coffee business itself...
...hours the man to whom the German people 20 months ago had been pledged by Hitler to "be in duty bound . . . equally as you have been to me," had been a fugitive from the sprawling Nazi domain...