Word: beachhead
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...looks as though the Cuban beachhead was lost on the playing fields of Harvard...
...Sierra Maestra, and orators described the heroic fight in glowing detail. On Havana street corners, groups of prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government announced that on May Day, that day sacred to Marxists everywhere, Cuba...
...built T-34 tanks into the fight; a dozen jets, some of them MIGs flown by Czech pilots, shot down five of the invaders' twelve B-26 bombers. Other Castro aircraft swept over the exposed troops in strafing runs. A desperate call for help went out from the beachhead: "We are under attack by two Sea Fury aircraft and heavy artillery. Do not see any friendly air cover as you promised. Need jet support immediately...
...intimates that the liberation of Cuba was no longer in their hands. "The U.S. has taken over, and they are owners, not allies," one confided. "The attack is coming soon. I don't know exactly when; it's no longer our decision. They plan to establish a beachhead, establish there a government-in-arms, hold air control, and move for the interior." On a map he pointed to a spot in Las Villas province, close to the Bay of Pigs...
...tradition of anticlericalism in southern France, which recruited the Huguenots in the 16th century and fueled Communism in the 20th, is finding a new outlet in a spreading bush fire of enthusiasm for the vanished sect whose 750-year-old lost cause against the church gave anticlericalism its biggest beachhead in France. Some 30 books have been published during the last 15 years about their beliefs and practices and their slaughterous persecution-most of them highly favorable to the heretics and critical of the church. Several plays have been written about them, and literary reviews have published long articles. Hundreds...