Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.H.Q. in Washington. To implement G.H.Q. strategy, the U.S. Navy's Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary was placed in command of the combined naval forces in the Australian-New Zealand sector of the ABDA area. Name of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet was changed to "U.S. Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific," and command of it was given to Rear Admiral W. A. Glassford Jr. Both Glassford and Leary will serve under Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander of all United Nations naval forces in the ABDA area...
...Moslems. A bomb exploded last week on a crowded dockside in Tangier, Spanish Morocco, 40 miles southwest of Gibraltar. When the smoke cleared away, 25 persons lay dead, 60 hurt. The bombs blew apart the luggage of a departing British official. As if by magic, yelling Arabs appeared from nowhere with baskets filled with rocks, began stoning the windows of British business houses. To the radio hopped Axis spokesmen, claiming that the exploded luggage had disgorged British propaganda. London called the episode an obvious Axis trick...
Like most Southwest and Rocky Mountain fives, West Texas State uses the spectacular "fire-engine" offense (a helter-skelter drive toward the scoring zone). In fact, Coach Baggett's system can be summed up in his one pet plea: "Boys, don't bother passing to anybody-just pass it at the basket." For defense, his galloping giraffes don't give a hoot. They just rely on "Long Taw" Charlie Halbert. 6 ft. 10, who hangs around their opponent's basket, bats out sure goals by simply reaching...
This was what the Tokyo radio on Jan. 18 sent out, in Japanese, for the gratification of Jap listeners in the Southwest Pacific. Although not beamed eastward, it was picked up and translated by attentive FCC monitors on the U.S. Pacific Coast...
...hero of World War II had last week gained control of 20,000 of the 96,000 square miles of a nation which Adolf Hitler imagined he had conquered early last spring. The Nazis had quit trying to dislodge Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich from the cold mountains southwest of Belgrade and had retired to that city to await warmer weather. General Mihailovich was issuing passports for "Unoccupied Serbia," which he also called "an island of freedom...