Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Election day was warm and sunny. Near polling booths in bars and cafes beer flowed as on a special holiday. High on the Zugspitze vacationers took time to vote, and from Baltic beaches bathers ambled inland to cast their ballots. "It does not really make much difference who wins," said a German in Marburg, "as long as there is a big turnout...
...come to give counsel and approval to plans for converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling the Communist coastal flank...
...United States" would have been able to fly planes off, but not retrieve them; it would simply have been a mobile airport for bringing planes nearer, but not very significantly nearer, the inland targets of strategic bombing. And it would have been a very expensive airport to lose. The odds are good that the Navy "Banshee" fighters are going to give the B-36 a fine fight, but equally good that the "United States" and the Navy's abortive entry into strategic bombing have been finally washed...
...latest Sky and Telescope magazine described a great meteor crater recently identified at Wolf Creek in the dry wilderness 400 miles inland from Broome, Western Australia. From ground level the crater is not impressive. Its rim looks like a low, rocky ridge above a featureless plain. Apparently the few who have passed near it hardly ever gave it a second glance...
...Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...