Word: pas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northeast Gateway. The least valuable of the main airfields were five which the U.S. built in subarctic Canada to ferry short-range aircraft direct to Europe. They are located at The Pas (in Manitoba), Churchill (on Hudson Bay), Southampton Island, Fort Chimo (near Ungava Bay) and Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which...
...large force of R.A.F. Halifaxes spent 90 minutes of one night last week in a concentrated pounding (with six-tonners) of Watten, on the Pas-de-Calais coast. The targets: launching sites for the expected elephant-sized Nazi V-2 rocket bomb...
...incoherent patchwork of incidents stretching from Waterloo to Roosevelt II, centering in the Civil War and loosely sewn together by the narrative of a young man in search of his ancestors. (One of them is Grand father Romulus Hanks, late Captain of the 117th Iowa.) It is crowded with pas sages of adolescent naughtiness, self-conscious profanity and dreamy, implausible and interminable accounts of old Southern vices. Its battle scenes are compounded reports of decapitations, disembowelings, castrations. It is a novel of death without grief, fornication without intimacy (or even without much interest), violence without terror...
Some of the bombs seemed to be shooting in from a more easterly direction, which might indicate that the German firing crews were moving from the bomb-battered Pas-de-Calais area to other launching sites in Belgium. The Germans talked of even larger robot bombs (six to 20 tons of explosive), claimed ranges that would carry them across the Atlantic...
...expected the U.S. Government to grant De Gaulle & Co. outright recognition. But Algiers was optimistic, hopeful that le grand Charlie and Franklin Roosevelt would get along far better in Washington, than they did last year in Casablanca. Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage...