Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
...girl told him frankly, "I like you. I think you're nice." There, amid the absinthe and saratoga chips of his French Quarter parties, La Farge would tell himself over & over, "Well, Oliver, you certainly have nice friends." But for all the call of the wild Southwest and the high-jinks of Mardi-Gras, the Groton Boy was still alive. When Laughing Boy hit the jackpot, Oliver bee-lined it for a Park Avenue apartment and all the trimmings...
...freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...
General Douglas MacArthur holds two commands: Allied commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific Area (CINCSOWES-PAC), and commander in chief of Army forces in the Pacific (CINCAFPAC). Admiral Chester Nimitz also holds two com mands: commander in chief of Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPOA), and commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC...
...confused with Cocos Island, about 550 miles southwest of Panama...