Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy saw the first Alaskan attack (June 3), in perspective, as the lesser prong of a double assault on the western rim of U.S. outposts. The greater prong was blunted against the air and sea defense of Midway...
...hero of The Gold Rush is billed as The Lone Prospector, a tenderfoot out for Alaskan gold. In his running narrative, Chaplin calls him "the Little Fellow." With eloquent timing he jaunts along the rim of a ledge high in Chilkoot Pass, unknowingly trailed by a big black bear, and the picture is away...
With Cyprus taken, the oil-hungry Axis would be almost at the mouth of the Haifa and Tripoli oil pipelines, within easy striking range of Allied land forces, spread thin along the northern rim of Africa. Only Cyprus stood in the way of such an eastern pincers movement...
...from Rangoon, which he already holds, from western Burma, toward which he is driving-threatens the two great jute ports. Calcutta and Chittagong. Chittagong, on the eastern rim of India's coast, has already been partly evacuated. Even without that immediate threat, the shipping shortage itself has cut into jute supplies. Ships from India must carry even more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from India). Every...
Bunks Burditt, who had failed to connect once for field goals the night before, tallied 11 points in spite of the fact that most of his shots rolled around the rim and came out again. He was the only man on the squad to last the full 40 minutes...