Word: gibraltarism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hoover recommended "the essentials of the proposals" he had urged a year ago, including i) withdrawal of U.S. ground forces to defend the Western Hemisphere, "this final Gibraltar of freedom"; 2) expansion of a powerful air & naval striking force that would act as a deterrent to World War III; 3) supply of munitions, rather than men, to the U.S.'s allies; 4) revision of the U.N. Charter, which "must not be allowed to dominate the internal sovereignty of our Government...
Then U.S. technical officers got down to the real purpose of their visit: to inspect Spanish port facilities. The Sixth Fleet has no real home in the Mediterranean. It wanders from Gibraltar to Suez, usually refueling at sea. U.S. admirals are dissatisfied with their allies' bases: Naples, the fleet's present headquarters, is too close to Russian bomber bases in the Balkans; Gibraltar and Malta are too small and too crowded...
...Marine Corps second lieutenant, Whitehead is at present serving in Gibraltar. He will presumably make use of his Oxford scholarship after his discharge...
...mass near Yonchon, from which the guardian searchlights at Panmunjom could be seen at night. The high ground which a U.S. unit held controlled wide reaches of surrounding lowland, and was essential to any attack along the Yonchon route. By week's end, correspondents were calling it "Little Gibraltar" or "Armistice Ridge." Apparently the Chinese wanted it inside their lines before the negotiators at Panmunjom finished plotting the line of contact...
They stormed Little Gibraltar in a surprise attack and drove the Americans off-temporarily. In the bitter 41-hour fight which ensued, both sides kept throwing in reinforcements until the Chinese had a whole division engaged. The U.S. doughfeet clawed back up the slopes and regained possession. When the fight for Little Gibraltar was all over, some 1,500 Reds were frozen stiff on the wire or sprawled in the snow. U.S. casualties were probably not light...