Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches to the Panama Canal...
...seaborne Jap attack on the defenders of Port Moresby might be attempted to aid the overland attack. Even while Jap troops squirmed through the jungles, Jap warships slipped into Milne Bay and shelled that hard-held Allied position on the tip of New Guinea. Milne Bay reported only last week that the remnants of the recent Jap landing expedition there had finally been mopped up (no prisoners were taken...
...most daring gremlins are those who walk out on wing tips and make the ailerons flutter, or slide down the radio beam when a plane is making a landing. If they are in an impish mood, the gremlins either jerk away the runways so that the pilot cannot tell where to land, or they tip the nose of the plane down so that a propeller prangs. At other times they can be as nice as can be, even get invited by air-gunners into their turrets for warmth and companionship...
...this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst, Mr. Welles on his own initiative held innumerable secret conferences with Soviet Ambassador Oumansky. In January 1941 Welles tipped off the Bolsheviks that the Nazis would invade Russia in June. Both Churchill and Roosevelt were convinced that Welles's tip was sound. Stalin was not. Davis & Lindley claim that Stalin was as completely surprised by the Nazi Blitz as Roosevelt and Churchill were later surprised by the Japanese foul...
...second time in the South Pacific the Japs got a bellyful of surprise. Chased out of bases in the Solomons, last week they decided to attack Milne Bay, which lies at the southern tip of New Guinea. They headed south in warships and transports. Allied fighter planes lugging small bombs spotted them, strafed their transports and sank a gunboat. But under a screen of low-lying clouds and a tropical downpour, they ducked into the ten-mile-wide mouth of Milne Bay, launched barges and poured out on the swamp-fringed shore...