Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 7 issue and your campaign of 1777 map: May I suggest that your research department strike its flag? The emblem used for Burgoyne's successes is the British Union flag of 1801. Even if Gentleman Johnny did anticipate by 24 years the addition of St. Patrick's cross to his flag, wasn't it the old Red Ensign (1707-1801) that British troops carried throughout the Revolution? . . . And your use of the so-called Betsy Ross flag here is also open to question. Careless and over-imaginative historians have ascribed many erroneous displays of this flag...
...prepared text, onetime Professor Douglas appended a page of footnotes, and from time to time he referred to a large map of Asia behind him. But it was an all-out political speech, a more or less skillful attempt to whitewash the Administration's Asia policy...
...Brazil, the most striking things were the "vigor and vitality . . . One knows this, one looks at the map, one reads reports. But to fly over it all day long . . . this just boiling ahead with terrific energy . . . You can be utterly flumoxed...
...jaded music lovers, looking for relief from the cultivated festivals that stipple the map of Europe, the Swiss National Yodel Festival last week was just the right rustic contrast. In the valley city of St. Gall (alt. 2,200 feet) gathered 2,800 apple-cheeked yo-di-li-o experts, the pick of Switzerland. The event was partly a competition, partly just a good chance to have...
Porkkala is the name of a 150-sq. mi. enclave just west of Helsinki (see map) that Finland was forced to "lease" to Stalin by the Russian-dictated peace treaty of 1947. There on Finnish soil, behind a secrecy no Finn is al lowed to penetrate, the Russians maintain a division of troops and train their long-range guns on the water lanes to Leningrad. The Russians allow Finnish trains from Helsinki to Turku to pass through Porkkala, but Russian locomotives (actually U.S.-made, sent under lend-lease) pull them, and the windows are sealed with sheet steel...