Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asia, Parthia & Rome. "If a modern westernizing world were to be unified peacefully," Toynbee said, "one could imagine, in 2002, a political map not unlike that of the Graeco-Roman world in A.D. 102, in which everything between Britain and India inclusive was gathered up in three empires-the empire in India and central Asia, the Parthian in Iran and Iraq, the Roman world round the Mediterranean. In form these three powers were all mutually independent, in reality the paramountcy of the Roman Empire was admitted by the other...
...pitch right from the line of scrimmage; he may also flip four failures in a row without penalty-though his coach might have something to say about that. The new rules deliberately encourage a more open style of play, and good passers have popped up all over the football map this year. Key men in the T-formation, they can make a poor team better than average, a good team great, and, on a bad day. they can also make an average team look helpless. Some of the best went to battle last week, with varying results...
Last summer SHAPE refused to let correspondents cable the location of new bases, though French Communist papers managed to find out enough to print a map of them. Newsmen were refused information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in the Communist papers. They had picked up the information from workmen. The blackout on news has also prevented SHAPE from counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused...
...French peasants refused to part with their land; wasteful engineering, hurry-up construction and sloppy workmanship resulted in lumpy, sagging runways that chipped under the weight of taxiing aircraft. Yet, one by one, good serviceable runways are being finished. Last week in the vital Central European Tactical Zone (see map), there were three times as many 8,000-ft. runways as there were a year ago. By the end of 1952, 60 big bases will be combat-ready...
Police reported that the man is a graduate of Boston Latin High School and Boston University. In his car, parked near the Yard, Cambridge police detectives William Trodden and John Norton found a map on which Logan Airport and the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipyard at Fore River were plotted...