Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Monterey Peninsula, the meadows of golden poppies and blue lupine beckoned. It was Easter Sunday, and in the spirit of the day Jerry Edgmon, n, and his kid brother David, 9, left the tent where they lived with their migrant family, and started to pick some flowers for their mother. With their mongrel dog, Rocky, frisking beside them, the boys wandered across some dunes and crossed under a sagging, rusted barbed-wire fence...
...thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps...
...were purely military: "With our largely unopposed air forces, with their atomic potential, capable of destroying at will bases of attack and lines of supply north as well as south of the Yalu River, no Chinese military commander would dare hazard the commitment of large forces upon the Korean peninsula...
Underground Wants. Forgotten Buraimi is suddenly a land remembered. Reason: oil, seemingly everywhere under the crust of the Arab peninsula. So far, none has been found within 300 miles. But each side wants to stake its claim...
...last week the New York Times front-paged an answer. "The Eisenhower Administration," reported the Times's Washington Correspondent Anthony Leviero, "is willing to accept a settlement in Korea based on a boundary at the narrow waist of the peninsula." This seemed to mean that the U.S. was ready to give up the U.N.'s declared objective (October 1950) of a "unified, independent and democratic" Korea. Leviero went on to say that the administration wants to persuade the Chinese Communists to stop sending arms to warring comrades in Indo-China in return for a U.S.-French "guarantee that...