Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venezuela. On the far plains, the llanos, that stretch from the Caribbean coastal Andes southward to the jungles of the Orinoco, the rains had ceased. Now, where the sparse cattle had been herded from hummock to hummock by boat, the floods would subside. Now the earth would crack and parch through six months of drought...
...Marine. Aspiration was stunted, however, as knowledge grew. "And when the war broke out," she explained, "I heard about the Womens' Reserve of the Marine Corps, and joined up." This was killing two roes with one stone, for not only did she get to be a Leatherneck, but the stretch in green entitled her to years in plaid, beige, or lavender at any college that would take her. "I'd never even heard of Radcliffe before," she said, "but when a friend in the service told me about it, I applied, and well--here I am." And here...
...bonds linking Britain and the U.S. (see above), her strategists in London were reorienting to a global defense centered on the Indian Ocean. Some old soldiers still romanticized about the vulnerable Mediterranean "life line," but a new school of planners envisioned a military girdle (with a two-way stretch) around Africa's equatorial belly...
Ocean, but the field of rocket fire would stretch south to the protected seaways of Good Hope, north to the Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...
...used as an adequate test of his right to be called a Liberal. Most Liberals are strong supporters of the U. N.; many of them over an even more powerful would organization. But some of the ablest advocates of the U. N. are men who can by no stretch of the imagination described as liberal. a Liberal will probably approve of action against Franco and Peren; he will probably favor a friendly and reasonably attitude toward Russia, multilateral control of atomic power, world wide cooperation on economic problems, a system of world trade loss impeded by national restrictions, and extensive...