Word: isthmus
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...succeeded in taking the rest of the Indies, they might do something they have long planned on paper and for which they have even formed a company: ignore Singapore's throttlehold on trade with the west by cutting a canal through Thailand's 17-mile-wide Kra Isthmus...
...against leaving one of its coasts undefended against attack. If an enemy should succeed in blocking or capturing the Canal, that insurance would no longer exist. Hence the first paradox of U. S. strategy: the most vital point for the defense of the continental U. S. is an isthmus 1,300 miles south of Miami...
...Like the Isthmus Republics and Mexico, embroiled last week in its own election turbulence, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador lie directly within the U. S. orbit and on their friendliness depends the security of the canal...
...entire Karelian Isthmus and north shore of Lake Ladoga...
...average grant $2,500 per scholar). Cast in unusual roles by the awards are two successful candidates: Novelist John dos Passes, who will complete a series of essays on present American conceptions of freedom of thought; Artist Miguel Covarrubias, who will write a book on the culture of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec...