Word: footholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month after he took command, the division captured Buna and MacArthur had his foothold on the north coast. The men of the 32nd, who called their division cemetery ''Eichelberger Square." then went on to fight the coastal campaign and the battle of the Philippines. This week they had their greatest hour of triumph when General Yamashita walked into their lines...
...Taoiseach nailed his colors to the top gallant, declaring that with his little army of 50,000 Irishmen he would fight any & every invader. . . . And he got away with it triumphantly, saved, as Mr. Churchill has just pointed out, by the abhorred partition, which gave the Allies a foothold in Ireland. ... It all sounds like an act from Victor Hugo's Hernani rather than a page of modern world war history; but Eamon de Valera comes out of it as a champion of the Christian chivalry we are all pretending to admire...
...Navy announced this week that it has finally solved an old nautical problem: how to keep barnacles off the bottom of a ship. The solution: a new plastic paint which makes bottoms so slick that for at least two years no barnacle can get a foothold...
...Germans' foothold on the Maas River was torn violently loose. They scuttled out of the Maas strongholds of Venlo and Roermond. When the Ninth and the Canadian First Army (which includes some English, Scottish and Welsh units) joined forces near Geldern (see map), the pocket was empty except for a few stragglers. Berlin said that the British Second Army had moved forward into the vacuum...
...more troops ashore and to emplace some artillery. With the rough seas of the second and third days, we might never have accomplished our initial landing. Not all the small boats made the beach that first afternoon, but enough made it to enable us to keep our foothold. By late afternoon we held perhaps 10% of the island-the most dangerous...