Word: bastioned
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...concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they did for King...
...Bohemia Marshal Tolbukhin was thrusting along the Danube toward Linz. If Tolbukhin can meet the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in the Danube valley, perhaps between Linz and Regensburg, then Bohemia (and the war industries of Prague and Pilsen) will be cut off from the Nazis' Alpine bastion...
...only remained to be seen how many of their divisions in Italy they could pull back to the mountain bastion under the scourge of Allied air power...
...Third Army, which had crossed the Czechoslovak border, suddenly swung south and shot an armored division 53 miles in the direction of Regensburg. At latest reports this outfit was "running wild" under a security blackout. The storm was gathering over the northern roof of the Alpine bastion...
...suddenly leaped south to the heavily guarded Swiss border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers, who reached the dock just as the last boat was pulling out, jumped into the water and tried to swim after...