Word: athwart
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...restore China's economic life. In the areas under its control its efforts had been feeble and its failures grievous; but an overriding consideration was the fact that not even the most efficient government could have revived China as long as Communist rebel bands lay athwart the nation's main communication lines...
...attack made aid to Russia through Iran an essential of Allied victory, the Allies took a long, hard look at old Reza Shah Pahlevi. They suspected some of his hangers-on of intrigue with Germany and, in any case, Reza Shah was too strong a character to be left athwart the Lend-Lease supply line to the U.S.S.R. So he was deposed, last year in far away Johannesburg died, full of bitter memories. Mohamed Reza, the wavy-haired young playboy, ascended the jeweled Peacock Throne of Iran...
...Athwart the Oil Arteries. Russia's demand for Kars had far-reaching implications. Physically the region is a remote forested plateau, once part of Armenia, now predominantly populated by Kurdish shepherds and bandits. It has fairly valuable salt mines, and rigorous winters. But strategically, Kars is a bastion commanding the entrance from Turkey into Russia and from Russia into Turkey...
They sat back, ready to chew up Alaska Airlines when it weakened further. But Tenderfoot Law planned to fool them. This week, he flew north with a hatful of plans which he firmly believes will 1) make Alaska Airlines undisputed top dog, 2) put it in a key spot athwart postwar Great Circle routes to the Orient...
...with the decline in civilian enthusiasm, veterans began to band together. For the first time in U.S. history "the soldier vote began to cast a long shadow athwart American politics." The Grand Army of the Republic became a major political force. Pension claims began to pour in-at first for war wounds and illness, later for postwar failure in health, finally for war service regardless of need. Claim agents combed the country. One statesman remarked that the G.A.R., having saved the country, now wanted...