Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week were allowed to cable that a temporary lull presumably meant the Japanese were readying a seaborne task force to recapture old positions. Chungking reported that the Japanese naval command had detailed four battleships to the Solomons area. Army Flying Fortresses spotted and bombed a strong naval force northeast of Tulagi, but could claim only "possible hits" on two battleships. A sea-&-air battle on the scale of Midway and the Coral Sea was imminent...
...interest to Freshmen and shown on this map are the Cambridge Post Office, on Brattle Square: and Radcliffe, Harvard's sister college which lies off to the northeast beyond the Law School...
...need for passive endurance will soon be past." The I.R.A. circulated a manifesto: "If in event of the resumption of hostilities between Britain and the Irish Republic, American troops are drawn into the conflict with Irish guerrilla forces, the responsibility must rest with those who presumed to use northeast Ireland as a military base without the free consent of the Irish people...
...Arthur Travers Harris and Major General Carl Spaatz were doing what they could with what they had-and it was no mean bomb tonnage. The R.A.F. Bomber Command threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines for submarines, planes, tanks) and the steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations in the Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying...
Herds of Nazi tanks gored a gaping wound in Russian defenses between the Volga and the Don. Day by day they dug deeper toward Stalingrad and Russia's Volga artery. Northeast from Kotelnikovski and southeast from Kletskaya they came, clamping a giant pincers around the strategic city...