Word: exploitatively
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...heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei, but it seemed a rather tiny exploit to be boasting about. Most likely the cautious Communists were trying to sound out the specific U.S. intentions in Formosa Strait...
...building the new defenses, the Air Defense Command will exploit a happy geological accident: the Continental Shelf, a wide, submerged plain stretching out from the Atlantic Coast. Unlike the prohibitively deep waters off the Pacific Coast, the shelf abounds in shoals where the ocean floor is less than 100 feet down, providing readymade sites for man-made islands...
Conversations à deux. Pierre Mendès-France was a man traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...
...Party Council, and 34 out of 42 new members at large, are supporters of Fanfani's Democratic Initiative. These victories might have alarmed the party's conservative old guard, and even brought on the first tremors of a schism, if Fanfani had made any importunate move to exploit his strength...
Many more such outlandish craft will be built to exploit the fabulous treasure of oil, gas and sulphur that lies under the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Bringing it up and to shore will be hard, risky and expensive, but the oilmen, though strangers to the sea, are the most supremely confident of confident Americans...