Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could a 63-year-old slither down a makeshift rope from a cliff-walled Nazi fortress? How could a politically important prisoner escape from such a feudal bastion, guarded every hour by men alert to his potential value? Why would such an escaped prisoner walk into the arms of stooges working in handcuff harmony with his erstwhile captors...
...getting on. Indeed, it was going very badly. Singapore fell. It was not merely that Singapore was England's most famous bastion of empire-only slowly did the people comprehend that kind of meaning-but they felt, though no one told them, that Singapore fell without honor. Embattled upon an island thousands of miles from the battlefronts, forty million people felt profoundly unheroic. And only a year ago these same people-soldiers, tradesmen and housewives-had written into the history of a glorious empire its most heroic chapter...
...give you this warning," John Curtin concluded: "Australia is the last bastion between the west coast of America and the Japanese. If Australia goes, the Americas are wide open...
...although only at the risk of increasing air attack from captured Javanese bases. But the battle of Java in its first days rapidly became a series of Allied withdrawals and sieges. If Java was not yet lost to the Dutch, it was lost to the Allies as a Pacific bastion. It would be lost until the last Japanese was driven...
...roar and crash of cannonade and the bursting bombs that are shaking my typewriter, and my hands, which are wet with nervous perspiration, tell me without the need of an official communique that the war ... is today in the outskirts of this bastion of empire. . . . Don't expect to hear from me for many days, but please inform Mrs. McDaniel . . . that I have left this land of the living & dying...