Word: buttressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those four weeks the Japs had snatched back miles of the railroad from Chinese guerrillas and regular troops, had swept westward to buttress their holdings against attack. They had driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...
...more adventurous trips of the summer was last Sunday's ascent of the Whitney-Gilman route on Cannon Mountain by several members of the club. First pioneered by a Harvard Math professor and member of the club back in 1930, the seven-hundred foot vertical buttress is usually considered the finest rock-climb in New England...
...airports. A mountain range could be filled with troops overnight. (A glider can land in a small clearing, stop almost instantly.) Since the gliders can be picked up again, commanders could accelerate emergency shipments to areas far distant from supply dumps. Mayhap tank-toting gliders will whoosh down to buttress surprise offensives...
...impossible to hold any possession, island or base, by a defense whose principal buttress is an existing sea supremacy. Unless the foundations of victory are laid by the formation of an adequate land army . . . mere sea power ... is useless except for rescue work. . . ." (Cf. Dunkirk, Crete...
These aircraft stations will buttress the reconnaissance and bombing powers of the Pacific Fleet on the long reach south from Pearl Harbor to the Navy's long-neglected station on Samoa. There, in the storied harbor of Pago Pago, workmen are also busy building a first-rate aircraft station, a secondary station for water craft to bridge the long reach between Pearl Harbor and Australian bases...