Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently determined to cling to New Georgia as long as he could, the Jap had resorted to sea strength as his air force weakened. He revived the "Tokyo Express." But the U.S. Navy's powerful guns had felt out the Jap ships in the darkness, sunk between 17 and 23, crippled more. Bombers, too, lashed at Jap shipping. Superior force, which had been brought to bear in Tunisia and Sicily, was winning in the Pacific as well...
Permit me to express a few thoughts in reply to "Senator's Dream" (TIME, June 14), with reference to the taste, talent and qualifications of General Douglas MacArthur for the Presidency...
Under pressure, the Jap resorted to sea action. Three times he attempted to send the "Tokyo Express* to the aid of his embattled forces. The first was surprised, escaped in the night (TIME, July 12). The second, having possibly landed some reinforcements near Vila on the island of Kolombangara, was trapped in Kula Gulf by a U.S. task force and virtually wiped...
Early on the morning of July 6, between 1 and 2 o'clock, we made contact with the "Tokyo Express" as it was crawling in a northeasterly direction around the Kolombangara coast. We paralleled our course and opened up before they apparently even knew we were there. In the flame and thunder it was impossible to know completely what was going on, but we knew that five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back, their shells raising geysers less than a hundred yards from...
...struggle for unity had taken place in France without the presence of a foreign power and without the existence of war, it would ordinarily have been decided by a vote or by a resort to force, wherein the correlation of forces could properly express themselves. Here political phenomena do not have full, free play. They develop unnaturally, and hence an unnatural compromise, satisfying no body, but keeping everything in suspension, is reached...