Word: prowl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turkey. If the rival mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
...spot on the continent of Europe, large or small, was safe. Not since the first decade of the 19th Century, when Bonaparte was on the prowl, had panic so seized Europe. Caught in the relentless pressure of power politics, the politicians of the smaller nations were as helpless as their people. The fate of their countries was in the hands of belligerents and near-belligerents; neutrality no longer seemed possible...
...Navies of both sides are the agencies for fighting out this war of convoy and blockade, not only of food supplies but of oil, war materials and metals. (Last week in London and Paris search parties were already on the prowl for junk and scrap.) Reviewing this war's first six months, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was able to say last week: "Where do we stand on balance? . . . We lost 63,000 tons of warship or about half the losses in the first six months of the last war." Same time Mr. Churchill admitted, since...
There were other dynamiters on the prowl. New York's' Rep. Daniel A. Reed had declared that the appointment of Ambassador to Belgium Joseph Davies to be Mr. Hull's special assistant was nothing more than the establishment by the Administration of a rich Washington lobby to resell Congress the trade agreement principle when the power to make agreements expires in June. And 17 blocks east, a handsome, jibjawed Republican Representative, Clifford Hope of Garden City, Kan., was reporting to House G. O. P. Pilot Joseph William Martin Jr. of Massachusetts...