Word: footholds
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...long as Adolf Hitler retains even a small foothold in Crimea, he has a perfect springboard for his promised second Russian offensive in the spring: a jump from the south smack into the rich oilfields of Baku...
...losses the Jap had little to show this week. He had done a decently good job of bombing; he had smashed up some buildings, some airplanes. He had managed to grab a precarious foothold on a beach 260 miles from the center of Luzon's resistance. But the Army's Far Eastern Commander, lean, brilliant Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, and his grizzled Navy sidekick, Admiral Tommy Hart, had been waiting with their knives...
...main aims in these landings were not transportation. They were: 1) to reduce the principal British airdrome on the east coast and get a foothold for air attack; 2) to draw as much British defensive strength as possible to the east. At least at Kota Bahru the first aim was achieved. By this week the Kuantan landing had not yet amounted to much. It was not clear how far the British let themselves be sucked in by the second...
...troops across monsoon-chopped waters in the moonlit night. The British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...
Since correspondents' first enthusiasms for Franklin Roosevelt have cooled they realize "how slight is their foothold, how easy it would be, in times of genuine crisis. to ... reduce their freedom to the slender confines of the Constitutional verbiage." When President Roosevelt last year barred Correspondent Paul Mallon from White House press conferences, only one to speak out was the Times's Charles Kurd. Moral is, thinks Clark, that Washington correspondents need an ethical organization like the American Medical Association...