Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just read . . . "Best-Covered Story" by Robert Sherrod [TIME, Dec. 13]. He says reporters "never try to rush onto a beachhead typewriter in hand." I wonder where Richard Johnston...
...Correspondent Johnston's featherweight Swiss portable was the exception that proved the beachhead rule...
...German troops below Rome the ill wind was a blessing, completely canceling out superior Allied air power, offering a priceless opportunity to crack the beleaguered Fifth Army beachhead on Cape Anzio...
They threw heavy, sudden attacks around the rim of the beachhead, probing for a soft spot, using tanks and assault guns as mobile artillery. Where they found the going reasonably good they poured on the pressure ruthlessly. From the beachhead, N.Y. Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart radioed...
...pilots had survived disappointments, discouragements and months of routine operations in which they did not even sight an enemy. They had finally got their big chance flying cover for the Allies' Nettuno beachhead, and they knew what to do with...