Word: isthmus
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...chronic bronchitis; in Panama City. Peasants hung the old fire-eater's picture near the saints' on their walls. He led a revolutionary expedition on Chiriqui in 1900, captured the capital of the province in hand-to-hand fighting with machetes, proclaimed himself leader of the Isthmus. When peace came after two years of guerrilla warfare he exiled himself, the next year repudiated the new republic because he disapproved its political character. Later won over, he became the country's leading liberal, as President concentrated on expansive public works...
Reindeer and horses still pulled sleighs through the haphazard streets of Murmansk. From that fine, deep-water Arctic harbor all the way to Leningrad, 650 miles south, winter snows still blanketed the land. Moving across the solidly frozen earth of the Karelian Isthmus, the Red Army smashed again & again at the tough Finnish defenders, drove a trio of wedges into the Finnish lines despite desperate tank and infantry counterattacks. East of beleaguered Leningrad Red troops lately transported from Siberia hacked away at Finnish positions on the Aunus Isthmus between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega...
...beyond such political squabbles he never lost sight of the big outlines of hemisphere policy. "America," he wrote from Peru, "can be saved by four things, a big army, a navy, agreement with England, agreement with the United States. The union of our states, the Congress on the Isthmus is the fifth...
...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
...Russians had choked the narrow isthmus with spots of defense as tightly as the Thousand Islands choke the St. Lawrence River. There was not much room for the channels of attack to flow through; crossfire covered every channel...