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Word: midocean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suddenly an idea struck him. He fumbled for the cable pulling the train of gliders, pulled hard, and released the gliders in midocean, dumping the whole Marshall caboodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Soviet Soap Opera | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Temporarily, at least, the military meridian which U.S. strategists had sought to push eastward across the Atlantic was rectified in midocean. But far to the south, it bent eastward: the little ash-heap of Ascension, whose importance was not realized until midway in the war, was under British sovereignty, and the British would be reasonable. Nearer home, the chain of Western Hemisphere bases from Newfoundland to British Guiana, obtained in the destroyer deal of 1940, was secure for 93 more years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: The Bases of Peace | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...important eastbound convoys were the prey of submarine wolf packs, ranging the Atlantic between the U.S. and Eng land. In midocean, beyond the zone of air protection from Britain, the convoys suffered (losses: unannounced). When the battle moved within range of the four-motored Liberators and Sunderlands of Britain's Coastal Command, the Nazi wolves paid: five were probably sunk, many others were damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Hawk v. Wolf | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...telephones, snow, gloom, pressure, rumors and Term III, Franklin Roosevelt could take off his coat, sit in the sun, nap, read a murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deep Waters | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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