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[Blockade - Catt Perry]

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 * > Name: || Catt Perry ||
 * > Word: || Blockade ||
 * > Source: || [//The Savage Wars of Peace//, Max Boot, "To Conquer Upon the Sea", Drifting Toward War, 13] ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || Verb; to block or obstruct, to subject to a blockade. ||
 * > Definition URL: || [] ||
 * > Context Sentences: || This master of literary craftsmanship finessed the issue through cleverly worded orders. The U.S. ships sent to the Mediterranean, he declared, would not **blockade** any state that had not declared war on the U.S. and would not attack unless first attacked. But the navy had permission to use force to protect American merchant shipping as well as to enforce existing treaty obligations. ||
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