Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automakers, the combination of inflation, recession and energy crisis has spelled sales disaster. For sellers of imported cars, the same combination spells bonanza. By capitalizing on the fuel-saving appeal of their lightweight autos, many importers are broadening their beachhead on the American market to almost its widest point since the first boatloads of Volkswagens rolled ashore in the early 1950s...
...clever, they are somewhat distracting to an ear attuned to English prose in the theater. A hint of Gilbert and Sullivan enters the playgoer's mind and lightens what should essentially be a dark comedy. Leaving that aside, the redcoats have come with another triumph to their Broadway beachhead . ∙ T.E.K...
...corridor between Kyrenia and Nicosia. By week's end the Turkish force was estimated at 30,000 men backed by 300 tanks. In political talks in Geneva, the Turkish government delayed attempts to scale down its Cyprus force and took advantage of the situation by broadening its Kyrenian beachhead in open defiance of a ceasefire agreement...
...much attention to antitank missiles as has the U.S.S.R. Moreover, it has generally regarded surface-to-air missiles as primarily defensive weapons. The Egyptian thrust across the Suez Canal demonstrated that these missiles can also play an offensive role, enabling an attacking force to establish and hold a beachhead. With the extremely mobile SA-6, beachheads can be expanded by slowly moving the missiles forward, thus increasing the area protected from aerial assault by their umbrella...
...Israeli navy sank three Egyptian boats carrying troops preparing to make a beachhead, and a fourth Egyptian vessel was destroyed northeast of Port Said...