Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cautious? Reduced to 35 planes and minus two carriers, Ozawa hightailed it out of the Philippine Sea. Yet, since he had saved the bulk of his 55-ship fleet, Spruance and Mitscher felt small joy. Had Spruance been overly cautious? No, says Morison, he had the Saipan beachhead to think of. "Military men never get any credit for guarding against dangers that might occur yet do not; but they are quickly 'hanged' if they fail adequately to guard against dangers that do occur-witness Pearl Harbor." Moreover, Morison argues, the battle was fully as decisive as Ozawa thought...
...number of ships-no specific number of divisions-no special number of billions of dollars-that will automatically guarantee our security . . . Today three aircraft with modern weapons can practically duplicate the destructive power of all the 2,700 planes we unleashed in the great breakout attack from the Normandy beachhead . . . I [speak] to you . . . not only as your President but as one whose life has been devoted to the military defense of our country...
...Germans, who had already been evacuated by the Nazis, to stay out so that Frenchmen in bombed-out Strasbourg could live in Kehl. At first the French strung barbed wire around Kehl and made as if to annex it permanently as a sort of French beachhead on the east bank of the Rhine. But in 1949, in talks in Washington, the French agreed to return control of Kehl to Germany within four years. Four years to the day, they kept their bargain. French families moved back across the river to Strasbourg, where new housing has since been provided. Hundreds...
Martin returned to Texas and organized a corporate beachhead from which to make raids as daring as Villa's. He got control of Brooklyn's Safe-T-Stat Corp. makers of radiator thermometers, later absorbed competitors (Moto Meter Co. Nagel Electric, National Gauge) into Moto-Meter Gauge and Equipment Corp...
Wounded by a Piano. In Italy he soon won a reputation for restless energy, drive and impetuosity. When patrols went out, he sat up and waited for their return, so that he could interrogate the patrol commander himself. At a critical moment on the Anzio beachhead he ordered every man available-sappers, cooks, clerks-into the firing line. "He acted like a red-hot poker," says one of his officers. "He always impressed you as a man who was inevitably heading for a tremendous crackup," says another...