Word: far-flung
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...when the student at the long table in Memorial Hall on the fall registration day asks you to cough up five bucks, don't try to put him off by saying you've already subscribed to the Lampoon--he's only trying to collect money to finance the far-flung activities of the Council...
...great would be the peril to Japan that Tokyo's first thought would be to withdraw its forces for the defense of the homeland. The United Nations could then accept 'absurd' risks. Once entrenched in Hokkaido, they need no longer fear any of the Nipponese far-flung pincers. The garrisons of Alaska, Hawaii and the American West Coast could be safely thrown into the Hokkaido drive against Honshu and Tokyo." Adds Kiralfy, "Chicago can be better protected in Hokkaido than in Colorado." To non-military readers, an invasion of Japan from the rock-bound coasts of Karafuto...
...defeat may even have been decisive, for in the far-flung adventures of Nippon, where empires are won by shoestring forces and strength is spread perilously thin, there is no room for crushing defeats. It was not a naval battle on the scale of Jutland; but it might in the end prove to have had a farther-reaching effect...
Although a number of students have already enlisted in the Corps, officials in this area are anxious to increase enrollment in the current membership drive. Two Freshmen, as well as a group of upperclassmen, are now driving service cars with the Ambulance Corps on the far-flung war fronts...
...Field Service has been working as a unit in cooperation with all Allied armies on the far-flung battle fronts of the war. Its volunteer drivers have given outstanding service, even before America's entrance into the struggle and it has greatly broadened its ranks since Pearl Harbor. The opening flurry of volunteers has subsided and sustaining enthusiasm must fill the openings created by the spread of fighting to new theatres...