Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to London one night last week went Prime Minister Winston Churchill, after a surprise visit to the northeast coastal defenses. Again he had proved his tremendous popularity with the English people. With enthusiasm they cheered him as he drove slowly along the coast, solidly British in his pin-striped business suit, his high-crowned black hat. With easy friendliness he responded to the welcome, stopping often to chat and joke with the villagers and soldiers. Good-humoredly he posed for cameramen, tinkering with a U. S.-made tommy gun (see cut), chewing on a big cigar. Playfully he watched...
...Kenya front, last fortnight's mechanized Italian drive on Moyale pinched off the northeast prong of Kenya Colony which projects into Ethiopia...
...politicians, newsmen. Marshal Petain held court in a corner of the lounge, ate behind a screen in the hotel dining room. Dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval dashed off communiqués, handed them out personally in the lobby. Early each morning an airplane took off from Vichy, headed northeast toward Wiesbaden, Germany, where the Armistice Commission...
Ripostes by R. A. F. to Germany's air blows were delivered incessantly upon military, industrial and communications centres all across Naziland to Berlin, northeast to Bergen and Stavanger. Airports, munition dumps and-most ominous-concentrations of barges along the Lowland and French coasts, were targets attacked even in foul weather.* At all costs Britain must interrupt Germany's preparations, play for time. The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer. For even if she stood off Blitzkrieg, Britain already faced Blockade. With...
Ideal location for the proposed Nazi coup was this most pro-Allied, smallest of South American republics (size of North Dakota, population of Los Angeles). Bounded on the west by big Argentina and on the northeast by bigger Brazil, it provided an admirable base for espionage against its larger neighbors, consistent advisers on its foreign policy...