Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Divided. Expecting to stop the Japanese at the frontiers of Siam, British commanders in Malaya had never seen fit to fortify the island city of Singapore. Only when the Japanese began their inexorable push down the Malay Peninsula did Winston Churchill learn to his amazement that the island was barely defended to its north, and later bitterly recalled: "I ought to have known, and I ought to have been told, and I ought to have asked...
Then Khrushchev returned and fired off an abrupt note informing the U.S. that a Soviet fighter plane had shot down the RB-47 near the Kola Peninsula, committing "a gross violation of the Soviet Union's frontier." A Soviet vessel, the note said, had rescued two of the six airmen, and the Soviet government was holding them for "trial under the full rigor of Soviet...
...there anything new about this. Boston, despite the fact that it used to be a hilly peninsula almost completely surrounded by water, has survived countless faceliftings without changing much. As Cotton Mather wrote: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession...
This is entirely erroneous as the American Express Co., which handled the King and Queen's world trip, accommodated them on one floor of the Peninsula Court, the best hotel in the colony...
...m.p.h. but separated as much as 100 miles from crest to crest, the waves met incoming ships so gently that they merely slowed them down. But when the waves hit land, they caused an unruly violence that varied according to the slope of a shore, the shelter of a peninsula or the degree of warning...