Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...
...lacking in Parliament, it was not lacking in Russia. Prime Minister Churchill admitted as much in his speech. Said he: "The Russians did not think that we or America had done enough to take the weight off them. . . . It was difficult to make the Russians comprehend the difficulties of ocean transport. . . . It was difficult to explain fully the different characteristics of the war effort of the various countries...
...Nations, including Russia and the U.S., are at least fivefold: 1) only through India can fighting China be supplied; 2) only from India can the United Nations launch a campaign to recover Burma; 3) control of India means control of shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean; 4) India's position enables United Nations' air power to strike east or west; 5) Indian supply routes to Iran and Russia will be increasingly important if Russia's southern armies are defeated...
Judge Hull, for example, compares the plight of the U.S. with a one-ocean navy to the embarrassment of a man with a shirt so short that when he pulls it down in front it exposes him behind, and vice versa. It was in a White House bathroom, the authors note gleefully, that Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sold the phrase "United Nations" by President Roosevelt. The President had fixed on it in bed before breakfast, shouted it through the bathroom door. The two biggest guns of democracy are now on such good terms that they can "say anything...
...nutshell: there is not sufficient room in the area of the Pacific Ocean for a peaceful America, for any and all of the peace-loving United Nations, and a swashbuckling Japan...