Word: slices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windiest, iciest, most desolate of the seven continents. Against hardships which conquered the weakest and the unluckiest they won fame for themselves, large chunks of the frozen desert for their flags. Last week Chile found an easier way to share in the Antarctic Circle pie, cut itself a large slice by Government decree...
...until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Admiral Sir James Clark Ross. Then Australia claimed a slice of its own to the west...
...most important point of victory in Greece was to give the mouth-watering dictators another little slice off the enemy's cake. Gradually the Axis was consolidating the Mediterranean as it had already consolidated Europe. With Britain out of the Mediterranean, the Axis would be much harder to beat...
Defiance and Garlic. A different proposition was Yugoslavia, where tough, pepper-eating Serbs breathed defiance and garlic even at the Axis. But surrounded by seven nations, five of which want a slice of her territory, and stranded without a single guarantee, Yugoslavia was already on the griddle. Even if the South Slavs would fight, a brief Balkan war on the way south to Egypt and the Suez would do no more than relieve boredom in the Nazi ranks...
...Majesty and his boss talked of Japanese-incited demonstrations in Bangkok demanding the "return" of a slice of Cambodian territory to Thailand; of Vichy's rejection of official Tnaï claims to that and some other territory; of renewed demands. They decided Thailand had little basis for these demands except the prostration of France. Thailand cited a secret treaty concluded between the monarchs of Cambodia and Siam in 1863 granting Siam certain concessions-on which, however, Siam later officially backed down under French pressure. The case of Thailand was neither more nor less justifiable than that of France when...