Word: southeasternmost
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...surprise: the rising sun was black. It was totally eclipsed by the moon. As eclipses go, this one had relatively few observers-at least of its totality. The path of complete blackout crossed the most sparsely inhabited wastes of Asia and North America, favoring only Canada's southeasternmost provinces before crossing the Atlantic to fizzle out at sunset near the Azores. Most big-city dwellers had to content themselves with partial obscuration: 88% in Montreal, 80% in New York and 40% in Miami...
...Yesterday one of the British submarines constantly lying off Italian ports to watch for the enemy's coming out (just as Nelson's frigates, whenever there were enough, scouted the French and Genoese ports) had reported a strong Italian force hard by Cape Passero, on the southeasternmost tip of Sicily, steaming east. British forces had immediately set out from Alexandria for Suda Bay, Crete...
After a 600-mile ride by truck from Warsaw to the southeasternmost corner of what was Poland and after surviving a German bombing raid there; after traveling by specially chartered Rumanian train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa, and after evading a German order for internment there; after aimlessly riding the eastern Mediterranean in a Turkish boat for a week; after a brief stop in Syria; after traveling to France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value...
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