Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mandated Marshalls, 1,200 miles eastward toward Hawaii, protect Truk on one side. The rest of the Carolines surround the Truk group itself: many & many a tiny island like Makin may offer no real protection, but does insure the Japs of ample warning of assault upon Truk...
Baruch has two other great advantages: it is certain that he would surround himself with aides of unquestioned integrity and ability; and no man is more conscious than Franklin Roosevelt of Bernard Baruch's loyalty to his President...
...engaged on the eastern front, Hitler would be free to detach a major part of his troops for use elsewhere. The problems of a second front in Europe would be enormously enlarged, for there would be no first front. German control of the Eurasian land mass would outflank Africa, surround China, leave Britain and the Americas islands in the west facing a terrible struggle to rebuild the world...
...solemn ritual with which Harvard will surround the award of academic degrees and distinctions on Thursday, June 11, the University's Commencement Day, will begin at 9 o'clock, when the Seniors assemble in the Yard for a procession to the Memorial Church where Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers, will conduct the Senior Class chapel service...
...German resistance to it (Reds may have found a relatively undefended sector); the size of the Russian forces (which must hold the ground they have gained if the wedge is to be effective); and how much momentum the Reds had (since to exploit the wedge they must eventually surround and destroy German forces...