Word: beachhead
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Cline R. Paden of Lubbock, Texas went to Italy eight years ago to establish a beachhead for his Church of Christ. He found the way of the missionary hard. First there was the matter of the license, required for any enterprise in Italy, from a church to a cigar stand. Paden could not have a license because he had entered Italy as a tourist, and his application for a permanent residence permit would have to wait. Tourist Paden lost patience and put up a sign on his building in the Via Achille Papa, in the shadow of the Vatican...
...longtime (1931-48) FORTUNE and TIME writer and editor, World War II chief TIME-LIFE military correspondent in Europe, writer on U.S. foreign policy (A New Doctrine for the Americas), novelist (Death of Kings); of cancer; in Ciboure, France. Wertenbaker directed TIME'S coverage of the Normandy beachhead, was among the first newsmen to enter liberated Paris, received the Medal of Freedom from the U.S. Army for "exceptionally meritorious achievement." In 1948 he retired to write fiction...
...because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter rigged as a "blitz bomber" against the expected Western invasion. Technically incapable of the task, it never dropped a bomb on the Normandy beachhead...
...morning he landed in Sicily in July 1943, General George Patton climbed a Rangers' observation post and watched a column of German tanks roll down on his invasion beachhead. A young naval ensign with a walkie-talkie said: "Can I help you, sir?" "Sure," roared the general, "if you can connect with your [profanity deleted] Navy, tell them for [profanity's] sake to drop some shellfire on that road." Somehow the ensign raised the cruiser Boise, which devastated the tanks with 38 rounds of 6-in. shells. "General Patton's conversion to the value of naval-gunfire...
Things were even getting a bit thick in London. BBC Announcer Donald Gray, a ruggedly handsome six-footer who lost an arm on the Normandy beachhead, has a deep, quiet voice that thrills British housewives (said one: "It makes me all relaxed to listen to him-I think he's smashing!"). Among his burbling fan letters, Announcer Gray got an ominous note from an anonymous husband who claimed Gray had "mesmerized" his wife. The husband threatened to kill Gray unless he retired from TV. Last week another threatening letter arrived, this time setting the day for the execution...