Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and a force of jeeps-the first aircraft carriers to be risked in the narrow waters of the inner Philippines...
...strictly unofficial news of the meeting was that the committee would recommend and the leagues elect a new commissioner before the 1945 season opens in mid-April. The inner-sanctum dope was that National League President Ford Frick, onetime Colorado College assistant professor of English and longtime sports writer, had the inside track...
...Bolinvars has two heroes. One is wealthy Bois Hugo Bolinvar, last of the sporting, aristocratic Virginia Bolinvars. Hugo looked like a Greek god and glittered with "inner fires." He owned a magnificent estate jampacked with foxhounds and liveried "darkies . . . with mirthful grins." Hugo was loved by "the most beautiful girl in ... all the South." But he was afraid that he was a bastard. He could not ask his mother about it because his father had murdered her years ago. So Hugo was ashamed to marry...
...while the training went on, China was still in evil days; the Japanese pressed closer to China's inner fortress. The enemy had moved to within 120 miles of Kweiyang, an air base city near the eastern end of the Burma Road. Nanning, last forward American air base in China, was captured. Heading the advance was wily, bespectacled General Yasuji Okamura (whom Wedemeyer called a "wise and adept mountain fighter...
...Third Fleet, whip north and destroy the carriers. That was what he did, swiftly and without hesitation. But the enemy still had a play up his sleeve. As Halsey turned north to battle, the center task force of the Japs reversed course and headed out again from the inner waters toward San Bernardino Strait. Seemingly the change was not detected by U.S. reconnaissance. By the time Halsey's aircraft and ships had smashed the Jap carrier group off Luzon, the San Bernardino Strait force had burst out into the open and was steaming south toward Leyte Gulf...