Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panicked and ran. A serious revolt occurred when 700 Scots, exhausted from three years' fighting in North Africa, sullenly refused to go into battle. By the fifth day ashore, Mark Clark was so discouraged that, says Pond, he gave preliminary orders to withdraw the American troops from the beachhead and use them to reinforce the British; stunned by the order, the British simply ignored...
Until recently, Elliott's operations were confined almost exclusively to Britain. But Bagrit, an enthusiastic backer of British entry into the Common Market, is now turning his attention to Europe, secured a beachhead on the Continent last year by establishing Elliott-Automation Continental in Luxembourg. "The next few years," he says, "will see industrial competition between nations on a frightening scale...
...mouth towards laughter. And he is still, in his rhetoric, very much the precisionist and the academic. Nevertheless, he does seem in some indefinable way to have grown greatly in stature since last spring: standing flanked by the American and UN flags, he says he wants to be a beachhead of responsible opposition in this country. And he does seem very responsible: he stands tall and serious, and his quiet voice carries very well. "The moment for hope has not passed." Prolonged applause...
...Skouras was made chairman of the board (at the pruned salary of $50,000 a year); Zanuck and three Zanuck men were added to the eleven-man board. Then three Zanuck foes quit, giving him something close to rule by decree. "I'm just back from the production beachhead," Zanuck said expansively, "and I'm planning a complete streamlining." With that, he packed his bags for France, where he has been storming the Normandy beach for the past two years making The Longest Day-which has so far cost 20th Century-Fox a tidy $10 million...
...loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from the Anzio beachhead, and a qualified paratrooper...