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Persian Gulf
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  • From there we would be smuggled by speedboat across the Persian Gulf to one of the Arab emirates.†   (source)
  • Blue Team's sixteen lost ships, which were lying at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, were refloated.†   (source)
  • Blue Team's sixteen lost ships, which were lying at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, were refloated.†   (source)
  • Is it any surprise that President Reagan is promising "firmness" in the Persian Gulf, and that his "plans are unclear"?†   (source)
  • Zeitoun and his shipmates knew that entering the Gulf of Oman, en route to the Persian Gulf, meant risking the wrath of Iraqi or Iranian submarines and warships.†   (source)
  • In order to maintain the balance of power in the Persian Gulf, he said, the United States would have to play both sides against the middle, supporting both Iraq and Iran.†   (source)
  • When Red Team's surprise attack was over, sixteen American ships lay at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.†   (source)
  • A flight to Bandar Abbas and a speedboat ride across the Persian Gulf a flight to Zahidan and a smuggling run into Pakistan, a flight to Tokyo on a borrowed passport these had been our workable alternatives.†   (source)
  • On the second day of the war, he put a fleet of small boats in the Persian Gulf to track the ships of the invading Blue Team navy.†   (source)
  • For a day and a half after Red Team's surprise attack on Blue Team in the Persian Gulf, an uncomfortable silence fell over the JFCOM facility.†   (source)
  • The military had been transformed, and with that, the Pentagon confidently turned its attention to the real Persian Gulf.†   (source)
  • Now, he was told, those assassinations had no effect. s surprise attack on Blue Team in the Persian Gulf, an uncomfortable silence fell over the JFCOM facility.†   (source)
  • According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war.†   (source)
  • I tell you there are no such eyes as mine this side of the Persian Gulf.†   (source)
  • And Edward would not promise not to do it again, though, fortunately, they struck a streak of cooler weather when they were in the Persian Gulf.†   (source)
  • 'The coral fishery gives employment to many men in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, and other places.†   (source)
  • But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.†   (source)
  • Yes, sir, once, in the Persian Gulf.†   (source)
  • With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Persian Gulf, melts in the tropic gales of the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander only heard the names.†   (source)
  • Setting its course to the north–northwest, the ship headed toward the Gulf of Oman, carved out between Arabia and the Indian peninsula and providing access to the Persian Gulf.†   (source)
  • The Persian Gulf has no outlet, and if we enter those waters, it won't be long before we return in our tracks."†   (source)
  • Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.†   (source)
  • "All right, we'll return, Mr. Land, and after the Persian Gulf, if the Nautilus wants to visit the Red Sea, the Strait of Bab el Mandeb is still there to let us in!"†   (source)
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