Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answered at length when asked if the U.S. would respect the German warning that the Red Sea (which the President had declared open to U.S. shipping) was now a zone of warfare. The U.S., he said, had fought undeclared wars for the freedom of the seas. He mentioned the Barbary pirates and the commerce raiders of the West Indies with which the infant U.S. Navy had fought something like 101 separate engagements before U.S. shipping was safe...
...Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone, floats a little fleet of motorboats. They are blue-grey, stubby, old-so old, some of them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity of their soldier crews. The soldiers who run the boats call them the third-ocean fleet. They are the supply boats of one of the finest, least-known outfits in the U.S. Army: the Panama Coast Artillery Command...
Wherever the guns, searchlights and watch posts are, there are soldiers burned hard and brown by the tropic sun, toughened by war with the jungle. For, when the Coast Artillery anti-aircraftmen in the Canal Zone were ordered into the hills last year, they had no place except jungle...
Unheard from and believed detained by Nazi authorities in Occupied France was famed Surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, 67, who had entered the occupied zone for a visit with his wife. In France to study malnutrition, he had made a date with a friend for April 25 in Madrid, never appeared...
Shrinkage. In a French town half in, half out of the German-occupied zone, Nazi sentries began paying more attention to funeral processions bound for the freezone cemetery, after discovering more mourners were going than coming...