Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ease they captured Antung, Red China's only major Manchurian port, then pushed south (toward the Soviet-controlled port of Dairen) to clear lesser harbors. In what obviously was a coordinated offensive, other Nationalist armies closed in on Chefoo, across the Yellow Sea from Antung on the Shantung Peninsula. Once again U.S. equipment and training was in evidence-the Chefoo attackers splashed ashore from old Navy landing boats...
Ross, who found it on the west coast of the Boothia Peninsula (see map). Roald Amundsen, in 1903-05, found it a little northwest. Until 1933 it shifted westward; then it started east again...
...Freddie Francisco also had to be toned down, after he wrote about a gay party at a many-bedroomed house on the San Francisco peninsula, concluded that before the evening was over all the rooms in the house had been pressed into service. The Examiner publicly apologized to the matron and her guests, thereby dodging a libel suit...
...real test for the Philippines. In 21 days, the incredible Jap fought his way from the Luzon beaches, down through the mountains to Manila. He occupied Manila and poured onto the rocky, forested peninsula of Bataan. His power was an orderly flame. Down went the docks, warehouses, airfields. Down were to come the sugar-cake houses of the rich, the country clubs, the magnificent hotels, the Government buildings. And hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were still to die. The "death march" and the rape were yet to come...
...months since V-J day the uniformed groom had all but vanished, taking with him a dress sword made gooey by wedding-cake icing. But thousands of other props which had been abandoned during the war were back again. From Westchester County to the Monterey Peninsula, from Philadelphia's Main Line to Miami's palm-bordered mansions, society weddings were being planned, costumed and produced as ponderously as musical comedies...