Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrance fee, each racer receives a map of the course and an identification number to keep him from cheating. Stationary and floating checkers use the numbers to identify any racer who hitches a ride on a truck or takes a short cut. If a racer is missed at any point along the course, no prize...
...fate of mankind for all time to come. They went out to Yalta and greeted the Barbarian and talked about democracy and told him that they could make a deal at the expense of various other parties who were not present. They betrayed our Allies and carved up the map of Europe in total disregard of the desires of the populations involved and then came home to inform us that the day of spheres of influence were over...
...Stalin's pledge to fight Japan into a military plan. The Russians stalled. It now seems clear that Stalin passed down a nyet until he had made sure of his territorial ambitions in the Far East. These were finally laid out in full detail and traced on a map by Stalin in a conversation with Ambassador Harriman on Dec. 14, 1944. Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China...
...hundred miles of clear water between you and the Communists." If that is the thing to do, Dulles asked, why not withdraw all the way to the U.S. mainland, behind 6,000 miles of water? The proposal might seem sensible to someone who looked only at a map, but it took no account of the all-important morale of the non-Communist millions in the Far East. His recent trip to Asia, Dulles told the Canadians, had convinced him that the only way to stop further aggression, and strengthen the will of Asians to resist Communism, is the positive...
Crissman jokingly suggested he might have placed better with a map in his hands. At any rate, before the April marathon he expects to sneak a topographical cram-session into his twice-weekly workouts...