Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time a military force in Europe which has political as well as military significance. (As events turned out, the U.S. forces in Europe in World War I had no real political significance.) The U.S. forces now in mainland Europe are not large, but they soon will be. They are advancing from the Mediterranean into Southern Europe and toward Middle Europe-the areas to which Joseph Stalin is most sensitive. The range of Anglo-U.S. air power covers all Europe. Cordell Hull, of course, cannot and will not assert that these forces are or ever may be forces opposed...
...assault against tiny Cos and its excellent airfield. The Allies admitted the loss of several strongpoints on the island to the German counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port of Spalato last week, but they are making the iron ring...
Jack Benny, tanned and plumper, got back to Manhattan from his ten-week U.S.O. tour of Africa, the Middle East and Italy, where his troupe was the first show to land on the European mainland. Said he: "In Iran, according to the current films, Shirley Temple hasn't been born yet, and Francis X. Bushman has just won the popularity contest." Two days later arrived...
...time has now come to carry the battle on to the mainland of Italy. To the Eighth Army has been given the great honor of being the first troops of the Allied armies to land on the mainland of the Continent of Europe...
...give Tokyo a fright. Tokyo did indeed broadcast to its people a warning that "the enemy could have raided the mainland if he had wanted...