Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attorney General Francis Biddle marked off 135 restricted zones from which all enemy aliens must move by Feb. 24. No one could say how many thousands would have to pack up and go. Nor did anyone know where they would go to. (The Government considered the idea of setting up big farm camps in the interior.) Francis Biddle also set up a curfew zone, covering a fourth of California, where all remaining aliens must be in their houses from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., must never travel more than five miles from home...
Like most Southwest and Rocky Mountain fives, West Texas State uses the spectacular "fire-engine" offense (a helter-skelter drive toward the scoring zone). In fact, Coach Baggett's system can be summed up in his one pet plea: "Boys, don't bother passing to anybody-just pass it at the basket." For defense, his galloping giraffes don't give a hoot. They just rely on "Long Taw" Charlie Halbert. 6 ft. 10, who hangs around their opponent's basket, bats out sure goals by simply reaching...
Setbacks on two fronts jolted the Axis Sunday--in Russia, where Red Army shock troops stormed westward through crumbling German lines toward the old Polish frontier, and in the southeastern Mediterranean zone, where British forces struck heavily by land...
This arrangement saw its counterpart in at least three theaters of war last week, where U.S. armed forces were actually functioning under a single command. In the western Caribbean, Rear Admiral John H. Hoover was in supreme command. In the Canal Zone, Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, Air Forces, was top man. In Hawaii, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz had been placed over Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons of the Air Forces, top Army man of the Islands...
Giuseppe Di Maggio, 67, father of Ball players Joe, Dominic, Vince, was officially barred from Son Joe's waterfront restaurant, only a few hundred yards from the Di Maggio home. Reason: the restaurant stands in a defense zone, and unnaturalized Papa Giuseppe is classed as an "enemy alien...