Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitchells, Havocs and Warhawks met little opposition in the air. Not since Dec. 28 had the Japs sent up a major intercepting force. Now, relying on ack-ack for defense, they hoarded what planes they could for the crisis they foresaw. The U.S. planes ranged as far as Lingayen Gulf, sinking and firing enemy ships. Marine Corps Corsairs, rigged as fighter-bombers, skip-bombed and strafed targets in southern Luzon; they found some ammunition trains which blew up with a satisfying display...
...thinking in banal phrases and banal thoughts, he said. There isn't any copy of the Atlantic Charter. The nearest thing would be the notes given to the radio operators of the U.S.S. Augusta, and H.M.S. Prince of Wales* (aboard which Roosevelt and Churchill traveled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in August, 1941). The agreement consisted of little scraps of handwriting. Some of it was the President's, some Mr. Churchill's, some Sir Alexander Cadogan's, some Sumner Welles's. Anyway it was signed in substance, and four and a half months later...
...Chou En-lai south for more parleys in Chungking. Fortnight ago Chou returned to Yenan with a proposal from Chiang Kai-shek for a Chinese united front (TIME, Dec. 18). For all Pat Hurley's war whoops, his easy jokes, his readiness to act as an intermediary, the gulf between the Communists and the Central Government was still unbridged...
...wartime Christmas. The first already seemed as if it had been in another decade. On Christmas Eve, 1941, antiaircraft guns were set up in the backyards of West Coast cities. San Antonio's telephone system was jammed by a rumor-the Jap Fleet was cruising into the Gulf of Mexico. Electric toasters, alarm clocks, nylon stockings were still for sale. There were debutante balls at which orchestras played Blues in the Night. Everywhere, East, West and South, the people waited for air raids. Christmas, they thought, would be just the time the enemy would choose...
Before dawn of the 7th, the 225-mile end run from Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait and up into the Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into...