Word: bastions
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...Wysor, ex-president of Republic Steel; Elis S. Hoglund, prewar head of G.M.'s Opel works in Germany, and their boss, A.M.G.'s Brigadier General William H. Draper Jr., former partner of Dillon, Read & Co. Sensitive Soviet noses smelled a capitalist plot to rebuild Germany as a bastion against Communist Russia...
...London the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved only the disconsolation of all in the world who desired peace, not power. Eastern Europe was a Russian bastion; western Europe coalesced toward a "family" which, to the Russians, would be a bastion against the Soviet Union. Within nations, as among them, political forces jockeyed for power...
...Truk, Japan's Pacific naval bastion, and the heavily fortified Palau Islands gave up. So did Japanese garrisons on Pagan and Rota in the Marianas. The catch was estimated...
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...
...policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...