Word: bridgehead
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...Bridgehead. Early in the battle, he had taken a position where all of organized labor could view him, where all of organized labor would have to applaud him, whether it liked him or not. His legal position was debatable; his moral position was worse. The court had merely ordered him to postpone-until the legal questions of his coal contract could be adjudicated-an action which would do the country great injury. This was the order he had defied. The order was the first step to an injunction, a word which labor mortally hated and feared. So on the bridgehead...
...traditional boundary: East has met West there before. The Avari, Huns, Magyars, Turks-all tried to break into Europe through the country which Charlemagne called his Ostmark (eastern frontier). Today again, legions from the East stand at the Danube, and again a battle is being waged for a bridgehead to Europe's heart...
...evening's first raid was on the Plymouth pub, the Tom Elliott. The Rev. Wilfred H. Mildon, a mild-appearing man, went in alone by the four-ale door (to the public bar) to establish a bridgehead. When he reappeared and gave the thumbs-up sign, all six parsons trooped in, 30-year-old Pastor Arthur Bird's black & white accordion braying deafeningly...
...wondered how they had ever gotten along without her. She listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness. Most of the time she was heavily engaged in defeating the elaborate stratagems of overambitious wolves. But it never upset her brisk good humor. Sample brush-off: "No bridgehead, enjine-eer! You can't make a runway outa these soft shoulders...
Annie's biggest day came soon after the Remagen bridge was taken. Another Allied force had secured a bridgehead near Andernach. Between these two points, Nazi troops in the Eifel mountains had ample room for retreat. Yet because Annie hinted that there was only one way out, most of the remaining Wehrmacht marched right into an Allied ambush...