Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of this blurt soon reached General Eisenhower. After careful investigation, the Supreme Commander "busted" General Miller to his permanent rank of lieutenant colonel, *gave him 24 hours to get out of the country and on his way to the "zone of the interior...
...your cut line under the picture of the advance-zone barbershop with its witty price list (TIME, May 8) you attempt to interpret G.I. humor, with I wonder what results. The barber probably thought his manicure "for officers only" was just as funny as the one about awarding the Purple Heart for his razor nicks...
...declaration that any area becomes a zone of operations: all civilians aged from 16 to 50 must be at once formed into labor units and sent as far as possible from the zone. ... If there is passive resistance . . . form reprisal camps for recalcitrants. In case of violence, military law. ... If operations are actually in course in the area: immediate execution without judgment...
Excepting Costa Rica (and Panama, overshadowed by the Canal Zone), Central America has long been dictator territory. Until recently the tyrants of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador guarded each other's frontiers, hunted each other's refugees. When the upset in El Salvador broke their united front last week, the three remaining dictators must have readied their firing squads...
...escort duty and earned special congratulations from Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, commander of all U.S. strategic bombing forces in Europe. The German defensive air force was obviously weakened in numbers, if not in fighting quality. Relentless air pounding along the French invasion coast had created an almost deserted zone, 50 miles deep...