Word: straitly
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...concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between Sicily and Tunisia and the 250-mile stretch between Crete and Libya, it was of little...
...seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
Africa. "The whole of North Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar to Somaliland would be at the disposition of the Axis. . . . Certain British and other African colonies on the east and west coasts would come under German and Italian control. The Union of South Africa might be required to secure complete independence...
...press his advantage, but he put such pressure on the Government of old Marshal Pétain that France expected to hear any day that it was committed to all-out collaboration. Spain took a cautious step and assumed control of customs at once international Tangier, across the Strait from Gibraltar. Portugal was in terror of invasion, expected a grab at the Azores and Cape Verde Islands...
...aborigines 1) with each other, 2) with contemporary and theoretical ancient Asiatics, he decided that Tierra del Fuegians came from Asia earliest, Eskimos last, that all the Indians in the Americas can roughly be dated by their distribution from south to north, that is, by their distance from Bering Strait, where they crossed...