Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working on their own H-hour, the nation's publishers flooded bookstores with shelves of new map books. Mostly these were the new-style maps, with breath-taking views of the world, maps on which the U.S. appeared like a stretched-out tigerskin rug, on which Australia might be as compressed as a frankfurter, or on which Winnipeg or Imphal suddenly showed up as the center of the world. These were maps of global war, on which menacing arrows pointed unerringly at vital targets; maps of the air age, in which distances were measured not in miles...
...military weathermen in Britain sketch a current map and in Washington, an International Business Machine shuffles through the old maps every day, digs out analogous weather conditions. Forecasters see what happened next under the same conditions, make their forecasts on the premise that like conditions produce like results...
...jungles and mountains of north Burma an obscure and confusing military picture suddenly came clear for all to see. Like the arcs of a circle (see map), three different forces drew around the strategic village of Myitkyina (rhymes with hitch-in-ah) while a fourth came out from China...
High on a ladder in the British Admiralty's war room stood a WREN (British WAVE), sticking pins in a map which marked the progress of a North Atlantic convoy. A crusty British sea lord stalked in, glanced upward at the map. Said he: "Captain, that WREN will either have to wear pants or we will have to move the convoy to the South Atlantic...
Target: Roadbeds. On the map of battle, Tokyo's first objective now be gan to assume shape: full control of the Peiping-Hankow railway. In 1938, the Chinese breached the Yellow river dikes, kept the enemy from this prize; last week, Japanese columns driving from north and south seemed to be close to attaining...