Word: shortest
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Somewhere in eastern Asia, probably at Rangoon, members of the Unified Allied Supreme Command (see p. 17) met this week to make ready an Allied success. There a good man reported to his chief on one of the shortest, strangest and grimmest commands ever held by a British general...
...Shortest prizefight on record lasted 11 seconds; longest...
...lank, dour fellow, with a face like a withered apricot, a sandy-grey pompadour, and a thundering disdain for anything Republican, Representative Ford is one of the shortest-tempered men in the House. He has been a 1,000% New Dealer ever since he came to Congress in 1933, after ten years of editing the literary page of the anti-New Deal Los Angeles Times...
Even without German infiltration, Iran had a poor chance of keeping her neutrality. The most strategic cross-corridor of Asia, Iran's mountains and deserts not only lie across the land route from Asia Minor to India but are the shortest road by which Britain could send supplies and men to the Russian Army - a road that has become vital since Hitler reached Russia's Black Sea ports...
Well aware are the Turks that their country offers Hitler the best road to Suez, the shortest land route to Russia's Transcaucasian oil fields (and to Iran, Afghanistan, India, beyond). Since the Balkan campaign, Nazi pressure on Turkey has increased notch by notch, with troop concentrations in Bulgaria, fortification of islands in the Aegean off the Turkish coast, increasing activity of Nazi agents behind Turkey's back (particularly in Iran). Economic pressure, too, has steadily risen since the German-Turkish trade pact was signed in June...