Word: straits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bases in northeast Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska, from which they could bomb any city...
Ronne wiped some geography off the map, too. He reported that the Weddell Islands, which Sir Hubert Wilkins and Ronne thought they had seen from the air, did not exist. And he solved what Rear Admiral Byrd once called "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle": whether a strait between the Ross and Weddell Seas actually divides Antarctica in two. Ronne proved that there is no strait...
...Home. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., the American Airlines' lost & found department was looking interestedly for whatever party lost a case of beer, an automatic backscratcher, three burlesque-type G-strings, a strait jacket...
Gabriel González of Chile was not even listening. As the Presidente Pinto approached the Strait of Magellan, he radioed triumphantly: "It is possible there is uranium in the Antarctic. I am personally carrying many ore samples that I will have analyzed in Santiago...
...activity was accompanied by great public outcry. Millions of U.S. citizens considered him a putty-nosed Canute trying to hold back the tide of progress. The nation was full of editorial writers who swore they could see foam dribbling down his jowls and wanted him clapped forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi as the electric tone...