Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Alexandria was a focus last week. The German drive, which had swept across Libya as fast and as hot as the desert wind called khamsin, was apparently aimed straight for Alexandria. If it reached there, Britain would lose her main operating base and very likely her whole position in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...leader William Green yesterday brought the issue of racial discrimination by the Naval Academy into national focus, as he telegraphed strong condemnation of the recent Annapolis incident. Meanwhile the Harvard Committee for Democratic Action swelled, faculty protest, but the Naval Academy was quoted as considering the case closed...
...Permanent Committee on Curriculum and Tenure which will serve as a focus of student opinion on academic matters in years to come and will take up as its first problem the present budget cut controversy was set up by the Student Council last night...
...speech with the sound of history about it was made before Parliament last week. The First Lord of the Admiralty-the authority on naval affairs who is personally most responsible to Parliament and the people, the receptacle of active Admirals' suggestions and complaints, the focus of naval policy, a man who more than any other knows to what extent Britannia rules the waves at a given moment-rose to report. What he said about merchant shipping was a chilling mouthful...
...none of her unwilling provinces does the Third Reich find stiffer, more stubborn resistance than in The Netherlands. Focus of stolid Dutch hatred of the Nazis is a secret society called "Les Gueux" (The Beggars), blamed by the Germans for recent widespread riots. Fortnight ago, breathing brimstone, a German military court sent 18 of the Beggars to face a firing squad, imprisoned 19 more, hoped without conviction it had broken the Beggars' back...