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Word: seabound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Until wartime bugles blow, the U. S. people always like to think that they, their Army and their Navy would never fight away from their seabound mainland. "The Atlantic and the Pacific are of tremendous value to our defensive situation, but they are not impassable," observed George Marshall in a piece published last week. In such impassable equivocations, he and the Navy's "Betty" Stark must deal. Otherwise that peaceful ostrich, the U. S. Citizenry, might suspect that its hired fighting men are doing their bounden duty by preparing to fight anywhere on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: To Arms | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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