Word: kura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young in Heart. In Tokyo, government ordinance was blamed by 8 2-year-old Kura Nagaoka for her retirement after 70 years as a practicing geisha...
...sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...
...Russian Army, estimated 200,000 strong, based on Tiflis and stationed throughout one of Russia's favorite training grounds, the Kura River valley. Through this valley from the wells at Baku to refineries at Batum (see map), runs Russia's prime oil pipeline. Another line runs north of the Caucasus from Grozny to Tuapse on the Black...