Word: fortress
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Corregidor. 1941. General Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated Manila before the onrushing Japanese invaders, fled to the island fortress that guards Manila Bay. Under bombardment there, he radioed appeals to Washington for help. No help could come. It was one of the darkest points of World War II in the Pacific. MacArthur talked of dying at his post...
What the U.S. sees-and seeks-as "containment" of Soviet power, the Kremlin sees and fears as "encirclement" by its enemies. That fear has driven Soviet foreign policy since 1917. The Bolsheviks were then surrounded and even invaded by hostile capitalist countries. The word Kremlin means fortress-an accurate reflection of the mentality there...
...Born and educated in England, Buttrick won notice in the U.S. as pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (1927-54) and at Harvard as Preacher to the University (1954-60). From these pulpits he shocked fundamentalists by asserting that "literal infallibility of Scripture is a fortress impossible to defend" and infuriated others by opposing the U.S.'s entry into World War II and the subsequent arms race with Moscow, "a lockstep toward incineration that we do not know how to stop...
...thousands of refugees-TIME Correspondent David DeVoss filed this report: There are at least 60 different rebel factions fighting in Afghanistan. Nearly a dozen of them have headquarters in a reeking slum on the edge of Peshawar's old Afghan colony in the shadow of the old Mogul fortress that still dominates the skyline. On any given night, many of the insurgents traverse the rocky goat paths back into Afghanistan to join 50,000 of their countrymen in trying to gun down Soviet soldiers. Janeb Gul, for example, a 45-year-old wheat farmer, stayed in Peshawar just long...