Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...east, where the Italians had expected the first attack, another Australian force cracked the outer line again, cutting off a string of pillboxes. The Australians swept two miles into the defenses through both breaks. At nightfall 5,000 Italians had been taken prisoner...
That, too, was the time of the gloomy revelation in the press that the United States was as unprepared for modern war as all the other democracies had been. The prospect, therefore, before the United States, if the British Fleet was sunk or surrendered or sailed away to the outer parts of the British Empire, was not rosy. With Hitler and Mussolini's navies and the remains of the French Fleet based on the eastern rim of the Atlantic and on strategic islands well out in the Atlantic, would not the whole American Fleet have to come back...
...Rayville having been sunk so close to shore finally materializes the fears that some of us treated as so much buckshaw before entering the outer harbor at Hong Kong this last summer. Among the usual untraceable rumors that spread around the ship, was one about mine fields that were supposed to have been all over that particular area of the China...
...hours there were 600 emergency calls to the fire department. Chimneys went down, a water tank plunged through a roof, a cornice dropped to the street, killing a Negro, the ten-story Hiram Walker Whiskey sign on the corner of Randolph Street and the Outer Drive, one of the biggest electric signs in the world, crashed in a mass of twisted steel and broken light bulbs. On the Great Lakes the 4,220-ton freighter William B. Dacock, ice-covered, was driven on the rocks, broke in two, killing all of her crew of 33. A car ferry and four...
...bridge between the inner and outer harbor a fiery...