Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They reported that the Russians' southern Commander, Marshal Semion Budenny, had set up a strong defensive zone near Poltava, where in 1709 Peter the Great finally stopped the aggrandizement of Sweden's Charles XII. The new Budenny resistance was even admitted to be taking the form of counterattacks...
...came close to forcing reluctant admissions of their right to the fabulous title, on both occasions the book reviewers made notable goal line stands to keep the slate clean and sustain the hopes of countless knights of the pen that they would be the first to reach the end zone of literary immortality...
...Pundit Lippmann excepted from his suggested reduction) the Army today numbers a round 1,400,000 in officers and men. For purely defensive purposes, military experts now consider that the U.S. Army needs as minima these forces outside the continental U.S.: Iceland, 15,000; Philippine Islands, 160,000; Canal Zone and Caribbean bases, 200,000; Hawaii, 200,000; Alaska, 110,000. Total 685,000. For permanent establishments in the U.S., to man fixed.bases, provide anti-aircraft and air defense for the coasts, it needs a minimum of 1,000,000 more. It also needs a minimum task force...
...Hardly anything was well in Iran last week. To be sure, the Majlis (National Assembly) had accepted the Russo-British peace terms whereby: 1) the Russians "for the duration" will occupy a zone 500 miles long and from 50 to 150 miles wide, bordering the Caspian, in the country's northwest; 2) the British in the southwest will occupy another, 400 by 100 miles, embracing the oil fields; 3) all airdromes, communications and roads will be taken over by the Allies...
South and Central America can also point to a sizable representation in the Class of '45, with Argentine, Brazil, the Canal Zone, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela combining to contribute a total of ten students...