Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern side of the triangular front now closing about the Germans and Occupied Europe, the Axis must be driven from North Africa and the Allies must regain real control of the Mediterranean before even the first step toward Europe is completed. At best, ejecting the Axis from Tunisia will probably take two months. The job may take longer-too long for victory in 1943-if the Germans continue to reinforce their North African armies and to do as well in the fighting as they did last week, or if they suddenly move against Gibraltar...
...emergence of the Partisans last week as the main anti-Axis force in the Balkans opened a new phase in the complicated, triangular Civil War that has alternately smoldered and flamed in Yugoslavia ever since the German invasion nearly two years ago. The Partisans had organized an army and a state; they were operating on a front 100 miles long and had already destroyed one Nazi Panzer column...
...October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of land which served as training grounds for the student regiments during the war, was selected as a fitting site. Four years later, amid a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion...
Algiers in the dawn of Nov. 8 was a white, triangular wound against the dun hills behind the harbor. Beyond its jetties, well out in the Mediterranean, a great naval concentration stood in from Gibraltar: the Royal Navy's battleships Nelson and Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, cruisers, destroyers and transports laden with U.S. troops...
...shielding her eyes from a mass of blue-white electric bulbs. "Isn't it awful?" "Day" illuminated a "painting library" (a large room enclosed in a sinuous purple tarpaulin), where art lovers were invited to sit on narrow, legless, armless rockers, and by turning unframed canvases hung from triangular columns, study the exhibits from any angle they desired...