Word: minefields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion Found. As the sick, tired voice of Ortiz was stilled, another liberal spoke out. In defiance of the state of siege thousands of copies were privately circulated of a book called Campo Minado (Minefield) by Adolfo Lanus, editorialist of Argentina's great democratic daily La Prensa. Onetime Deputy and member of the Chamber's committee investigating anti-Argentine activities, Editor Lanus knows his country behind-the-scenes...
Blacked out, she was led by a Navy launch toward the minefield sown in the harbor's mouth beyond Corregidor's forbidding heights. Somehow in the dark she ran past the launch. The warning shout from the launch was lost in a vast red explosion. The old Corregidor, her hull burst, settled in shark-ridden waters...
...passengers, some 500 died beyond the reach of Navy patrol boats that fearlessly whisked through the minefield...
...east, west and south exposures, mortars and rifles up to 16 inches, capable of hurling metal 20 miles, guard the Rock and deny the Strait of Gibraltar to surface ships. The naval base on the west is protected by chain booms and a minefield...
...there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling, the No. 1 Nazi Fifth Columnist at Oslo, got the invaders past the harbor guards at Bergen...