Usage examples (27)

• ‘Dairen’ presumably dos not refer to that Chinese city. vincent says:
• When Soong left Moscow, Stalin was still insisting that Dairen be specified as a Soviet military zone and that the Manchurian railways be under Soviet control.
• As payment, he wanted the Kurile Islands, the southern half of the oil-producing island of Sakhalin, and a warm-water port Roosevelt had previously suggested Dairen.
• After a two-week standoff, General George E. Stratemeyer, temporarily in charge while Wedemeyer was in Washington, decided that the American ships could not wait indefinitely...