Word: buttressing
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...impossible to hold any possession, island or base, by a defense whose principal buttress is an existing sea supremacy. Unless the foundations of victory are laid by the formation of an adequate land army . . . mere sea power ... is useless except for rescue work. . . ." (Cf. Dunkirk, Crete...
These aircraft stations will buttress the reconnaissance and bombing powers of the Pacific Fleet on the long reach south from Pearl Harbor to the Navy's long-neglected station on Samoa. There, in the storied harbor of Pago Pago, workmen are also busy building a first-rate aircraft station, a secondary station for water craft to bridge the long reach between Pearl Harbor and Australian bases...
...rigid fact about Empire was Britain's greatest misfortune last week. The structure of Empire leans on geographic strong points. Knock down the buttress of Singapore, and the whole eastern wall of Empire falls. Knock out the Suez Canal, and British power in all the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean collapses. Last week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other...
...that the Kaiser and his clique (none of them had probably ever read or even heard of the books) were leagued with the devil. Today the German rulers not only read but preach from Nietzschean texts. By careful excision the official Nazi philosophers have adapted Nietzche's works to buttress and lend a respectable philosophical aura to their case. Friedrich Nietzsche who despised his contemporary Germans, who was bitterly anti-anti-semitic, who wrote of himself as "a good European" has become the high priest of the new religion, dynamism. His books are being printed in Germany by the thousands...
Regardless of whether the blueprint stands up, its publication made clear that SEC takes Section n literally. It also opened the way for a court test if U. G. I. wants one (the company hinted that it did). Vogueishly invoking national defense to buttress the ruling, SEChairman Jerome Frank explained his commission's broad objectives: "Power for national defense industries must come, in most instances, from hundreds of private operating utility companies which are presently under the control of a handful of holding companies, mostly located in large eastern financial centres. Efficient operation . . . requires an intimate . . . knowledge...