Word: flyspecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted, courted, toadied to as no other man has been in the 20th Century; now he was a lonely exile, Governor of The Bahamas, flyspeck-islands important chiefly to another country than his own. He told the National Press Club...
...problems of foreign policy were both vast and minute. Martinique, 385 square miles, pop. 246,712, was a typical illustration: six months ago a map flyspeck of no consequence to the U. S. people, but now vital. Just in time, the Havana Conference had assembled the machinery to meet such problems: occupation of any American danger point by any American nation; joint administration of such occupied territories...