Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This comparative enthusiasm did not mean that Willkie had suddenly captured the Northwest. Many a G.O.P. worker grumbled about Willkie's endorsement of the Federal ballot for soldiers: Was this not another "me too" manifestation? Then there was his New York tax speech: Did that mean that he wanted to go twice as far as the New Deal...
Next, Turner invaded the Russells, northwest of Guadalcanal. That operation went more smoothly. The Japs had evacuated. On June 30th, with new equipment, new types of landing craft, he put the 43rd Division ashore on Rendova without the loss of a single life (although many lives were lost later and the final capture of Munda took weeks instead of days, as expected...
...Soldier's Son. The force that Vice Admiral Nelles will direct from London is vastly different from the R.C.N. as it was when Cadet Nelles signed up in 1908, the second of seven original officer candidates. Percy Nelles, son of Brigadier Charles Nelles, who served in the Northwest Rebellion, South African War and led the Royal Canadian Dragoons in World War I, was truly one of the first aboard...
...Nazis had the heavily secret jet-propelled planes of Britain and the U.S. to worry about. But the Nazis uncovered rocket planes of their own during raids on northwest Germany...
...from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven. One day last week General MacArthur's fliers plastered the Madang area with 243 tons of high explosive. The next Allied landing might strike that way-the most direct way to the General's lost Philippines...