Word: citadel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could transport between 100,000 and 200,000 men, with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need be. Java, citadel of the Indies defense, held the bulk of an Army of 100,000 (native and European), the bulk of the new Air Force, old but fixed coastal defenses, an arsenal. And Sumatra was just as tough, with one half sheltered by Malaya, the other half lying in the strategic domain...
Last week advance sales of The Keys of the Kingdom passed 250,000 copies, the biggest since For Whom the Bell Tolls. The first novel A. J. Cronin has written since The Citadel, had become a best-seller before it even reached the public. Advance buyers were the Book-of-the-Month Club (The Keys of the Kingdom is its August offer) and U.S. bookstores, which seldom make mistakes about what the public wants to read...
...equipment was enormous, their numbers endless, their attack irresistible, their cruelty studied. When they invaded a city, the rattle of wagons and the neighing of horses was deafening. In battle endless relays of fresh men leaped into action until the enemy was overcome with exhaustion. When they stormed a citadel, battering rams pounded day & night. After winning a fight, they built a wooden platform on top of the prisoners, caroused on it until all were crushed to death...
Ford Motor Co. also promised to wipe out the strong-arm Ford service squad, used in the past to enforce discipline, break union assaults on Ford's anti-union citadel...
Objective of the upper column, of British-led Arabs from Iraq, was Aleppo, the old Hittite city with a 12th-Century Saracen citadel. There, two weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...