Word: fortressed
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...brown leaves that drifted to earth in London's parks and along the arbored avenues of Washington fell more slowly than the hopes of men in those capitals last week. As if Moscow were the last fortress in the path of Hitler's armies, millions of men who are Moscow's allies surrendered to despair...
...Government termed secret and "promising." The Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced Naziism at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Cantor...
...went back to Russia and pushed his country's borders to the Baltic Sea. Then, by the Baltic Peter built the beginnings of his favorite city, St. Petersburg. The town grew, and Peter gave it a fortress touching the water-great Kronstadt. Peter called the place his "paradise,"eventually moved his capital there, by the water...
Boeing Aircraft Co. last week test-flew its new B-17E bomber, a better-armed, slicker version of the Flying Fortress (B-17Ds) with which the R.A.F. is now bombing Europe from heights over 30,000 feet-too high to be hit by ack-ack, or to be reached by most German pursuit planes...
Each island, each cluster, each pool, each fortress would be circular-so that it could not be attacked from "the rear"-and autonomous-capable of holding out after others were knocked out. The system was calculated to canalize enemy attack into defiles covered by cross fire from several islands at once, and themselves generously cluttered with tank traps, mine fields, barbed-wire entanglements, other obstacles...