Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombers' heavy toll, the Jap dipped next day into his deep reservoir of shipping and brought out four transports, determinedly convoyed by two cruisers and four destroyers. The destination: Lae (rhymes with gay) 150 miles up the New Guinea coast from Buna, where the Jap has his nearest foothold...
...camp of several thousand soldiers, fellow Harvard men may never come in contact with each other, losing what maybe their only opportunity to gain foothold of friendship at the post. Similarly there may be Harvard families eager to entertain students in nearby camps, but unable to act without information...
...MacARTHUR's HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Allied troops closed from three sides today on Sanananda Point, last Japanese foothold in the Papuan area of New Guinea, as remnants of an enemy convey which was battered for three days at Lae were reported fleeing north-eastward...
...among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold with each...
...Germans capped their apparent calm with a report similar in tone to their accurate (and equally unflurried) forecast of the Rzhev offensive. They said that at Voronezh, where the Russians last summer kept a foothold on the Don 300 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the Red Army was assembling forces for a third offensive southward toward Rostov...