Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the central Asiatic wastes in China's far Northwest hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...High Command, announcing virtual completion of the bloody conquest in the Stalingrad death pocket, said Russian assault forces had slaughtered 10,000 Germans...
...great American era of the automobile came to a virtual end in 17 States along the Atlantic seaboard last week. Without any warning, the Office of Price Administration banned all pleasure and nonessential driving. At the same time, OPA cut the value of fuel oil coupons for home use by 10% and the amount of fuel oil for nonresidential purposes by 25%. Taken together, these orders brought about the greatest civilian dislocations to date...
...grim correspondents were just beginning to be allowed to hint at. For one thing, the U.S. troops were green men who would need months of experience before they were as battlewise as the German veterans who opposed them. In the northeast corner of Tunisia the fighting was at a virtual stalemate. Across the waist, U.S. troops had advanced to a point 40 miles from Gabés, Tunisia's southernmost port. The advance was a threat to Axis strategy. If the Allies reached Gabés, thus cutting the Axis corridor, they might succeed in stopping the juncture...
Francisco Franco looked north and saw German troops concentrated on the Spanish-French border. To the south, U.S. and British forces formed a virtual arc around Spanish Morocco. From the U.S. in the west had come assurances of peaceful intentions if Spain remained neutral. From Italy in the east, Franco's onetime ally, harassed Benito Mussolini, cried out hopefully: "There is no longer any distinction between Fascism, Naziism and Falangism...