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- noun World War II (February 1944); American infantry landed and captured a Japanese stronghold
- noun an atoll in the Marshall Islands; site of an amphibious assault in World War II; later used temporarily by the United States to test atomic bombs
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( "Eniwetok"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Diana.
News 2009
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( "Eniwetok"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Diana.
News 2009
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( "Eniwetok"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Diana.
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We can imagine it as the creation of one of the psychiatric patients in The Atrocity Exhibition, the future image guerrillas of this Third World War: ‘these bizarre images, with their fusion of Eniwetok and Luna Park, Freud and Elizabeth Taylor’ (AT 7).
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Even in mid-2009, when the pair decided to fly their private Boeing 767-200 to the remote Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to view a solar eclipse and Brin used the occasion to drop in on Google Tokyo, they skipped China.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Even in mid-2009, when the pair decided to fly their private Boeing 767-200 to the remote Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to view a solar eclipse and Brin used the occasion to drop in on Google Tokyo, they skipped China.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The thunder of doom had barely ceased to roll above Eniwetok Atoll when the first Sputnik rose beeping into the sky.
Tin 2010
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It took its bow at Eniwetok in 1952 and then, for an encore, at Bikini in 1954.
The '50S 2008
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The two-stage design that resulted, tested on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok on Nov. 1, 1952, yielded a terrifying 10.4 megatons -- a thousand times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
The Atomic Bomb 2008
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This brilliant boy is fated to grow up and eventually work in a secret “Area 51” military laboratory on a remote Eniwetok-like island.
Archive 2008-04-01 James F. McGrath 2008
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