Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already set. The actors in the drama of triumph were in the wings with him. Already in France General Charles de Gaulle awaited his entrance cue. The chariots were assembled-the tanks and trucks of General Jacques Leclerc's armored division which had rolled up to the rim of the city with the Americans. Other victory parade leaders were ready - among them General Joseph Pierre Koenig, the commander of France's underground army, which was already rising against the last Germans in the murk that hovered over the "City of Light" just before the dawn...
Forbidden Ground. On the invasion rim, from King's Lynn on The Wash down past Great Yarmouth, the herring port, past Harwich, home of Britain's famed gunnery school, to the misty mouth of the Thames, where Sheerness and Shoeburyness stand guard, to the North Foreland around by Dover and Beachy Head to Southampton and on to the Devon towns and Land's End in Cornwall, only those with identity cards might...
This fabled land lies like a sort of buffer state between the empires of Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...
What U.S. pilots saw as they glided in over Palau was a huge, reef-encircled lagoon, splotched with hilly green islands near the eastern rim. Sprawling over a round island near the main entrance to the lagoon was the sizable town of Koror, mostly composed of laborers' barracks. The U.S. airmen saw the results of Jap labor-two or three islands razed level for fighter and bomber strips, cement jetties from which roads curled back into the jungle to camouflaged fuel and ammunition dumps...
Back on the rim of the Mediterranean, Wilson must watch political developments in Egypt, while in Algiers General de Gaulle and his colleagues dream their several dreams of what power shall prevail in a liberated France...