Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas under its control its efforts had been feeble and its failures grievous; but an overriding consideration was the fact that not even the most efficient government could have revived China as long as Communist rebel bands lay athwart the nation's main communication lines (see map...
Blueprint for Federation. The Anglo-U.S. Cabinet Committee on Palestine, which had been conferring in London for two weeks, came up with a proposal: Palestine should be "federated" into three parts, Jewish, Arab and British controlled (see map). The Jews would get about 15% of the country's 10,400 square miles, the Arabs 40%, the central government (i.e., British) the remaining...
Peter W. R. Mitchell, a smart British banknote salesman, coolly turned the misunderstanding to his own account. He offered to print a colorful series of Guatemalan currency featuring a map of British Honduras. Gasped Banker Manuel Noriego Morales, "Will your Government permit you to print it?" "We are a free country," replied Mitchell smoothly, "and my company is not interested in politics...
Saturday, Harry Truman turned tourist. As a onetime reserve officer who worked his correspondence courses on a Gettysburg map, he had long fancied himself an authority on the battle. He let newsmen in on his battle critique...
When last soon, our friend was carrying the biggest map of Harvard you ever saw up to his room...