Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substance, to this theory was an announcement from the Japanese Imperial Household of the establishment of a "grand national shrine'' to the Sun Goddess on Carooca, southernmost of the Japanese-owned Palau Islands. "The islands have come to occupy a very important position as an advance outpost of Japanese development southward in industry, economy and culture," read the announcement...
...Party was growing by leaps & bounds. Comrade Stalin appointed the new secretaries of the expanding organization. Comrade Stalin could not directly punish a recalcitrant secretary, but one who showed too much independence could easily be shifted, without explanation, from a nice post in, say, the Crimea, to a cold outpost in Archangel. By the time of Lenin's death in 1924 Stalinist bureaucracy was already in the saddle...