Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after peace came to weary Finland, Strategist Freeman wrote: "Men of short memory and shorter patience are demanding a more vigorous prosecution of the war. . . . Will the dead be given leave to speak from the grave? They have one answer to all the insistence upon rash offensives. It is compressed into seven words: Do not attack until you are ready! "President...
...year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have an all-Russian sea route from its European frontier to the Pacific, 3,000 miles shorter than the 9,000-mile Odessa-Vladivostok route, and would fulfill a dream of Peter the Great's to make a place for Russia on the seas. Last week Moscow hailed 15 heroes who had got into a lot of trouble helping to bring fulfillment of that dream nearer...