What is "pacific"

Usage examples of "pacific".

Rivers, and by the populous tribes in New Caledonia, as ascertained by Sir Alexander Mackenzie in his journey to the Pacific.

The Ataman had completed sea trials and aircraft landing operations in July of 1998, and been sent immediately to the Pacific Ocean Fleet.

Jones was picked up out of the watery vastness of the Pacific Ocean by his own power cruiser, the Bandersnatch, which had for three days been cross-quartering those waters in the vain, despairing hope of picking up some trace of him or his body.

They are organized based on various regions of the world where the UN has a sanctions regime in place: ISET Alpha is assigned to Asia and the Pacific.

As a sailor, Bering had, of course, been on the borders of the Pacific.

Hundreds of cargo ships carrying goods lo and from Japan, China, and ihe olher Pacific Basin counlries, scores of supertankers fully loaded wilh oil, others returning empty, literally ihousands of commercial fishing boals, and untold smaller crafls and Iheir crews, all fell prey lo ihe waves.

Despite all-day bogies, the night of the thirty-first was as though man had never fought a war in the Pacific, and on the morning of the first of April the combined force hit the enemy base of Woleai, about halfway between Truk and Palau.

The divided command problem between MacArthur and Nimitz haunted the Pacific war and resulted in the stupendous botch at Leyte Gulf.

They were supposed to be the first line of defense against a Soviet breakout into the Pacific.

Did great-grandfather Bruder see nights like this, wandering among those Pacific islands, and did he feel small and insignificant then?

Akagi, the sleek aircraft carrier flagship of Admiral Nagumo, headed westward through Kudako Strait, cruising easily at 16 knots on her course toward Bungo Channel and the broad Pacific.

By noon we had passed through the eastern channel of Bungo Strait into the deep blue waters of the Pacific, and the destroyers had spread out for a swift antisubmarine sweep before assuming their positions in a ring formation.

As related in the opening chapter, the 21 ships of the Force threaded their way through Bungo Strait at about noon and by nightfall were well into the Pacific, forging southeastward in circular cruising disposition.

Slavery, servitude, and all the other guises of the coercive organization of labor-from coolieism in the pacific and peonage in Latin America to apartheid in South Africa-are all essential elements internal to the processes of capitalist development.

Pacific, somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii, the sea was a weird goulash of currents, streams of cold stuff coming up from the Antarctic and coolish upwelling spirals out of the ocean floor and little hot rivers rolling off the sun-blasted continental shelf far to the east.