Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew who invented the tale that British troops had landed in Norway and recaptured three coastal cities...
...London last week hot-footing it around to the Foreign Office to protest fresh indignities suffered by his country at the hands of Great Britain, in her course of trying to throttle Germany. British aircraft had flown over Norwegian territory scouting for German ships using Norway's coastal sea lanes. British warships had entered Norwegian water to sink German ships. One of them fired a shot across a German's bow and the shell landed ashore, albeit unexploded, near the Varhaug railway station on Norway's southwestern tip. Norwegians muttered that if British intrusions did not stop...
Scarcely a tropical island paradise, Bougainville is ringed by a three-mile coastal belt of swamp, and rises to rugged mountain chains 10,000 feet in altitude, with two active volcanoes, Oliver said. The climate is equatorial, with extremely humid weather and heavy rains...
...Russians would march all night northward out across the ice. Some rode in tanks, some in huge sledges driven by airplane motors. As dawn broke they would strike at the unfortified coast, gripping at small coastal islands, making a landing and trying to establish a foothold on shore, hitting occasionally for towns like Kotka. Hamina, Virolahti...
...still the hordes came on, and at week's end even the Finns had to admit the Russians had several footholds on the coastal front. Obvious aim was to penetrate inland and cut the vital lines of communication from Helsinki to Viipuri, then sweep around behind the Finns' last-ditch defenses in the Mannerheim Line. Many a Finn was constrained to admit that a moderately honorable peace would be preferable to gradual strangulation by Joseph Stalin's Molasseskrieg...