Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...clear that American security required two fleets, the British Fleet, based on British blocking the entry of hostile European fleets into the eastern Atlantic, and the United States Fleet predominant in the Pacific? It was this dual system which protected the Monroe Doctrine and which alone could keep war distant from American shores...
...high-cost producers may eventually have their day. The Henderson plan is to treat them as a last reserve against the day when U. S. copper consumption rises to something like 1,500,000 tons, or when war in this hemisphere makes Chile look too distant. In such an emergency, Henderson would negotiate individual contracts with the small fry at around 14? a pound. But the posted price for big-league copper would stay where...
...kind of world struggle now breaking upon us involves far more than the old-time mobilization of an army and its distant support with men, munitions and provisions. Modern war places the civilization population in the front line of defense. Civilian as well as military administration is called upon for personnel, plans, management of situations as in London and Berlin, which are not described in the books. Invention and improvisation are imperative. There may be no time for legislatures to convene or for courts to decide. Competent and energetic administrative staff must carry the load for the time...
After the King the Prime Minister spoke. He was confident and proud, but grimly so. His peroration, usual repository of highest rhetoric and hope, held forth cheer only in the distant future and only if distant friends gave great help...
...sound of distant church bells pealed for half an hour one day last week over the brown hills of Greece-by state decree. In Athens, traffic cops stopped cars to tell drivers what had happened. Newsboys shouted it, innkeepers told their guests. A commemorative postage stamp was ordered. Greek and British flags broke out everywhere and men in British uniforms were carried aloft by cheering, singing Greeks. In the northwest, on the other side of the tumbled Pindus Mountains-a place almost as hard to reach from Athens as the other side of the Rockies is from Washington...