Word: lough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independent Eire had been unable to agree on a united defense program for Britain's western back door. Mr. de Valera feared touching off a civil war if, before the Germans came, he let in British soldiers or let the Royal Navy reoccupy its old bases at Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Cobh. The British Army massed troops to rush across the Irish Sea when the hour struck, and R. N. calmly announced new minefields from Scotland to Iceland to Greenland, to prevent the Germans sweeping around to Ireland from the north...
Though warning that Germans were the likeliest invaders, Prime Minister de Valera still clung determinedly to neutrality, hoped that the Irish could keep German submarines out of Cobh harbor, British cruisers away from Lough Swilly. Eire was neutral against everybody...