Word: midways
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...home crowd went bananas midway through the final period when RPI jumped into a 7-6 lead, but Marc Hetnik evened it at seven before Meagher pumped in the spoiler...
...scoring leader Pete Maravich led the scoring parade with 31 points (despite 10 minutes of shutout defense by Kevin Stacom midway through the first half), and Truck Robinson chipped in with 22 points and some mean boardwork to help the Jazz...
...more than idyllic images. To Washington, they are an extraterritorial headache. The U.S. has responsibility for more than 2,200 of them, sweeping in a 4,000-mile arc from American Samoa to Guam, with a 2,000-mile lurch northward to include the naval battleground of Midway. Many were the sites of bitter, bloody victories in World War II: Saipan, Tinian, Kwajalein, Truk...
...Other sparsely populated American military installations flung widely across the Pacific, notably Midway (pop. 2,300), Johnston (pop. 1,000) and Wake (pop. 1,600), claimed outright by the U.S. at the turn of the century...
...addition to controlling Kwajalein, Johnston, Midway and Wake islands, the military has reserved substantial acreage in Palau and the Marianas. The highest naval profile is on Guam, where two-thirds of the island-including the best beach, the only lake and the one patch of tillable soil-remains off limits to the population save for 8,800 U.S. servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees...