Word: footholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy. Said the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery: "We've finally got what we wanted after hard fighting in dreadful weather." What the Eighth's men had won: a foothold on the Rome side of the Sangro River, one of the Germans' toughest barriers in eastern Italy...
...occupied, and driven back into the forest. But what they were meant to do, they had done; while the German attention was diverted, Russian infantrymen crossed the Dnieper, seized a bridgehead between the areas where the Red Army broke across the river in the last month. On to this foothold poured reinforcements of airborne and parachute troops...
...line of July 5 (see map). But the Red Army counterattacked and one after another Orel, Belgorod and Kharkov toppled. Each loss set in motion the wheels of military necessity and fate. Kharkov's fall necessitated the retreat from the southern bulge. That in turn imperiled the German foothold on the Caucasus. The fall of Orel doomed Bryansk...
Warned Representative Engel: "If there is one thing that will set the returning soldier against his Government, it is excess profits . . . on invested capital, and excess wages paid to labor. . . . If Socialism or Communism ever gets a foothold in this country, it will be because of these wartime profiteers in the ranks of labor and industry...
...honeymoon, and his wife always joined him on his trips until ill health prevented it. His daughter Anna Ellen was born in Alaska. Through the years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome...