Word: bastioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to put up much resistance on the flat plains of northern Germany. But you can plainly see the bitter, skillful, grinding fight which we are putting up in Italy, where the terrain favors us. What will you do when you have driven us into our last great bastion, anchored on the high Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous price. Think it over. We do not ask for much-only that we, ourselves, be permitted to live out our lives in dignity...
Only around the rim of the Bohemian bastion were Wehrmacht divisions on the offensive. Probable German objective: to hold this natural fortress for a last fanatical stand...
South of Germany three Russian armies were now in action. One army, stalled at Budapest, had pivoted northward, by week's end had captured Miskolc, fortified and held by the Germans as a bastion of northern Hungary. Farther east a second had sprung to life, attacked in the mountains of Slovakia. Moscow did not announce it until last week, but in mid-November a third army had joined in, crossing the Danube 130 miles below Budapest...
Kweiyang ordered evacuation of all nonessential workers; all U.S. and British citizens were ordered to leave Kweichow province; thousands of misery-stricken refugees were pouring out of Kweichow into the Szechwan bastion beyond Chungking...
Saipan had already become the bastion for attack on Japan (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). From Guam, 128 miles south, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Bert Andrews cabled: "It would be helpful if the home-held picture of Guam as a tiny Pacific 'pin point' were dispelled." Through heaviest censorship he slipped a general's quote: "This will be another Pearl Harbor...