Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must think he is behind a Maginot Line of deferment...
...chief of Yugoslavia's fortifications, he revealed himself as a Balkan De Gaulle, holding that a nation of such limited financial means should not try to build Maginot Lines but should concentrate on mobile and offensive possibilities. His superiors opposed him and he was transferred to the military inspection service...
...Friday afternoons because her mother entertained her 'lover' on those days." ^ M. Corre, the conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn German and become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...
...could go anywhere backstage and people ignored us. I guess they figured we were luminaries or were trying to catch an 8:40 cue. Anyhow, led by the adventursome Newman, who seems to be endowed with an inquisitive mind, the half dozen of us Harvard men paraded through the Maginot-like corridors of the Metropolitan backstage. Behind us trailed the three dozen supers from the other colleges, figuring, I suppose, that we knew where we were going. We walked a ways and climbed some stairs and all of a sudden there was a curain on one side...
Colonel Kernan is dead sure that Hitler can be beaten only by going after him, smashing him, routing his armies. His thesis is simple: the U.S., Britain and France relied too long on defense outposts (Singapore, Hong Kong), defense lines (the Maginot for France, the oceans for the U.S.), the classic seapower doctrines of Admiral Mahan. (One chapter title: "Mahan Was Wrong!") France fell because the French and British generals were gripped by the "defense myth." So fell Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Kernan pointed the lesson: by trying to defend everywhere, the Allies had held nowhere...