Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A strip of land, about 16 km (10 mi) wide, across the Isthmus of Panama. Formerly administered by the United States for the operation of the Panama Canal, it was turned over to Panama in 1979.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The common shortening of
Panama Canal Zone . - proper noun The shortening of
Suez Canal Zone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal
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McCain's dad was US military assigned to the Canal Zone.
GOP Rep Submits Bill To Require Birth Certificates From Prez Candidates 2010
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McCain was born at a U.S. military base in the Canal Zone, and military bases are legally American soil.
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A _very_ active US military presence along the Canal Zone would secure that land route.
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Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, a Navy officer, were stationed.
McCain's Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out 2008
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Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, the latter a Navy officer, were stationed.
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Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, the latter a Navy officer, were stationed.
February 2008 2008
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Gorgas, Col. William C., chief sanitary officer of Canal Zone, 317.
The New Nation William E. [Editor] Dodd 1912
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