Word: beachheads
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...tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead, 604. A grim and grey-faced Whitehead promptly ordered dissolution of the Southern Rhodesia Parliament and new general elections in June. His defeat was widely taken as proof that South African-style ideology has at last established a beachhead north of the Limpopo...
...lights of the Columbine as it sped through the night sky, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships were joined with the Royal Navy in a patrol line across choppy North Atlantic seas. From Her Majesty's frigate Undaunted, which was with General Dwight Eisenhower at the Normandy beachhead in 1944, came a message out of the night: "Glad to have you with us-Undaunted we remain." For nearly 16 hours the Columbine flew at 13,000 feet or less so that the cabin pressure could be kept at sea level as a health precaution. President Dwight Eisenhower was returning...
...Eyes of Texas. The Germans swiftly contained the Anzio beachhead, and Cassino proved to be a cork, bottling up the Allies for four months, until the pressure built up by 16 divisions, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming...
...reel, he doesn't know what Howard looks like), his tunnel vision in losing Anita's high-heeled trail is like getting lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody...
What is especially annoying is that the newcomer is a foreign import. Native to southern South America, the ant, brought in nobody knows how, established a beachhead near Mobile at least 30 years ago. Suddenly, three years ago, it began to multiply so rapidly that it now ranks as a major menace. Traveling partly in autos and trucks, the ants have spread their fiery trail through the South from Texas to North Carolina. Senators from Louisiana and Congressmen from Mississippi and Alabama have introduced bills in Congress asking for aid, and next week the House Agriculture Committee will open hearings...