Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the first official hint of what may well be Douglas MacArthur's plan to reduce Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific stronghold. The Admiralties lie on Rabaul's western flank. Kavieng, at the top of New Ireland Island, lies 150 miles to Rabaul's north, is a way station from Truk. Allied bases on the Admiralties and New Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign...
Some hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans are blotched with a skin disease called pinta. Heretofore U.S. doctors have assumed that the continental U.S. was mysteriously pinta-proof. But in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Eugene Paul Lie berthal gave the first U.S. pinta report - three cases in Chicago. He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed...
...other's eyes for the first time and have taken each other's measure day by day-a man named Roosevelt and a man named Stalin each decides that the other is a man to be liked, trusted and respected. If they do, a world Thanksgiving may lie ahead...
...Stretcher bearers carrying out casualties often have to wade waist-deep in muddy water. The jungle stinks with a dead, musty odor which is even worse in the forward areas where the bodies of the Japs lie buried...
...emphasize again that [the tri-power European Advisory Commission] is an advisory, not an executive, body. . . . It is a piece of machinery set up for the convenience of the three Governments. It is not an instrument for imposing their views on others. [But] on . . . these three powers principally . . . will lie the responsibility for insuring that this war be followed by lasting peace...