Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
Along a 2,000-mile front of islands and ocean in the south and southwest Pacific, the Allies crept closer towards Japan's muscular inner perimeter of defense. Towards the Gilberts, the northern Solomons, western New Guinea-outposts where Japan is fighting to hold off that advance-Allied forces announced some progress last week...
...Gilberts. Marines sneaked into Nanumea, which lies only 500 miles southwest of Japan's Gilbert Islands bases. Their landing was unopposed, put U.S. troops close in under the flank of Japan's long eastern sea frontier...
...Southwest Louisiana Institute, an obscure V12 beneficiary, got most of the Rice team...
...Southwest Pacific Theater, where he was Chief of Staff for Air after Pearl Harbor, Ralph Royce's showing had been only soso. Army airmen charged pedestrian performance more to a generally inept air command than to personal failure...