Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as we can beat the field, our pals the British are almost as unbeatable, regularly whipping the French. It is only against the stalwart American (known with withering scorn as "Colonist") that a hero of Duquesne or the Peninsula loses his sense of strategy and decency...
Secure with American military aid, dictator France is renewing Spanish agitation for control of Gibraltar by planned riots and diplomatic insults. Mindful of American eagerness to hold airfields on the Iberian peninsula, France has embarrassed the British by acting when the U.S. wants to please him. The United states is reluctant to take sides in the dispute, a policy which jeopardized the British position...
...slip of the peninsula...
...TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby." This is a vertical variance from veracity . . . Lobbyists did not run the state government while I humbly occupied the curule chair at the state capitol of Florida-the paradisiacal peninsula visited by 5,000,000 pleasure-pursuing sun-seekers...
...General Masaharu Homma's 250,000 Japanese, supported by their uncontested control of the sea and the air. The troops, still the peacetime Army, were badly equipped. MacArthur ordered Wainwright to put into effect War Plan Orange, the 20-year-old strategy for a withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, where the defenders would wait for help from the U.S. He fell back skillfully, but there was no rescue in prospect.With his scratch army he conducted five months of resistance against the enemy's first team...