Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servicemen in the Pacific will be commemorated by something more enduring than marble or bronze. The Pacific War Memorial will be a scientific foundation with the whole Pacific Ocean as its laboratory...
Last week, as Britain's political leaders reaffirmed the bonds linking Britain and the U.S. (see above), her strategists in London were reorienting to a global defense centered on the Indian Ocean. Some old soldiers still romanticized about the vulnerable Mediterranean "life line," but a new school of planners envisioned a military girdle (with a two-way stretch) around Africa's equatorial belly...
...Ocean, but the field of rocket fire would stretch south to the protected seaways of Good Hope, north to the Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...
...Estonians and a Finn who had braved the ocean in three tiny sloops to escape German and Russian oppression (TIME, Oct. 7) got word in Miami last week of their fate. Since they had no visas of any kind, those in the first boatload were told that the gates of the U.S. were shut. The rest could hope for no better. Their alternatives: to go back home or settle in South America...
...last Sunday, the condemned were visited by prison chaplains. The Catholics among .the eleven made their confessions. Only Streicher and Rosenberg refused the Sabbath solace. For the Protestants, the Rev. H. F. Gerecke, of the German Lutheran Church, intoned a prayer (which the prisoners repeated after him): "Over an ocean of hatred, His forgiving love is spread. . . . We may die at His side. . . . Lord Jesus, You have descended to human pain and felt death. You will not abandon us. Have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins. . . . We come from the erring . . . from the misery and the guilt of earth...