Word: heartlands
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...Winston Churchill was as jolly and prankish as a boy on a picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon's teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks out of the German heartland. There were hints-decently obscured by censorship-that Mr. Churchill may have expressed his contempt in even more emphatic manner...
...fifth of the Luzon heartland-the most important fifth-was in American hands. By latest estimate, more than 100,000 of the 161,000 Japanese who had begun the defense of the Philippines were dead. But still the enemy fought on, died hard and spread horror as he died...
...some 3,000,000 subjects, the overlord of 3,500,000 more, the master of a few oases and of many deserts and mountains whose combined area (700,000 sq. mi.) is about one-fourth that of the U.S., the dominant Arab of the Middle East's Arab heartland...
...northern part of the Indian Ocean) and the Persian Gulf flank India, reach into some of the world's richest oil areas, and may yet be Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking out on the Black Sea and the Caspian, which wash at Russia's outward gates...
...month - many of which, the Japs admit, are defective when delivered. But only about half the 1,500 are combat types, and U.S. air fleets have destroyed enemy aircraft recently at a rate of better than 750 a month. Japan must hoard air power for defense of its heartland...