Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little meaning: after next May 31 the Russians would still enjoy "joint use" of the Port Arthur base with their good friends of Red China. In any event, the Russians had the use of a second ice-free port at Dairen, a handy 25 miles up the Liao Tung peninsula from Pert Arthur. But the agreements let Peking spread the impression that it had been able to force the Russians to withdraw...
...storm smacked the tip end of Haiti's long, southern peninsula, neatly avoiding its mountain barriers, and danced disastrously across some of the island's most heavily populated areas. At Dame-Marie, floods and high winds killed 40; the towns of Jeremie and Aux Cayes were largely unroofed. The International Red Cross estimated that too people were dead and 100,000 homeless after the storm's brief passage. But Haiti foresaw as the storm's worst effect months of starvation for remote, hand-to-mouth villagers, whose subsistence crops of bananas and plantains were ruined...
...General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory. Six months later, Earthquake emerged from Communist China with a huge beard (they had taken his razor from him) and a cheerful...
...fall of Indo-China, he continued, would knock over Burma, then Siam, then the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. This, in effect, would tumble the row of island defenses consisting of Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. To the south, it then threatened Australia and New Zealand. So, said the President, the possible consequences of the loss were just incalculable to the free world...
...grant these people easy freedom of choice for fear that this would encourage nationalists in North Africa to step up their own pressure for independence. For Nehru, on the other hand, the enclaves are a galling reminder that colonialism has not yet been pushed entirely off the Indian peninsula. "It is in the nature of things unthinkable," Nehru said, "for us to allow foreign pockets to remain in India...