Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian coast. British parachutists armed with machine guns, hand grenades and high explosives had landed in the wild Calabria-Lucania region of Italy's instep. Though 19 had been quickly disarmed after a battle with carabinieri, some were probably still at large. All Black Shirt divisions in the zone south of Naples were mustered out in patrolling parties...
...good point about our squad is that everyone figures in the scoring. That, coupled with our zone defense, has been largely responsible for our wins. Six of us have been high scorers in different games. We beat North-eastern, 49-26, yet the high point man, Don Lutze, made only nine points...
...money from a Nazi consul in Portuguese East Africa, only 400-odd miles from Johannesburg. Always a cagey fighter, Smuts did not crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good. He flew in a loaded bomber to the war zone in the Sudan just to show his people how near it was. This, on top of the smothering of Holland, suggested to Afrikanders that World War II was their...
Smiles returned to Japanese faces, tea cups were refilled and an armistice creating a twelve-mile buffer zone between the Indo-Chinese and Thai forces was quickly arranged. Peace talks were postponed for a later meeting in Tokyo, when claims would be settled and peaceful collaboration in the New Asiatic Order discussed...
Last week a lieutenant of police called on Ted Scott at his office, politely arrested him. On the way to the police station Scott bounced out of a car, ran across a street into the Canal Zone, only to be bounced back by Zone authorities. A writ of habeas corpus that he secured rebounded off a convenient Panamanian statute denying this right to foreigners charged with meddling in local politics...