Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First thing we talk about," one Look-outer said, "is our husbands. Then we talk of the wash, the children, some more about our husbands and then about the wash again. We also talk about cooking. It was mighty hard having your husband and your cook torn away at the same time...
...wait. The Germans could continue to guess where Red power would strike next. Last week they guessed rightly that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...
Halifax fishermen were in luck the moment the tow line snapped. Driven by the wind, the disabled U.S. Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which was towing her into port. She slid past the islands which ring Halifax's outer harbor, grounded firmly on Lobster Claw Ledge. Rocks under the sea smashed her hull. She lay broken near the land, her mid decks awash...
...point in what the Germans had called their Mitteleuropa wall, a depth of forts and trench works. It had zigzagged dugouts, trenches, minefields, concrete fire points. Rokossovsky's forces worked for two days on Mlawa, then painfully hacked through. Perhaps Mlawa was a symbol. For all its outer strength, it leaned on slender reeds of reserves - units of the Volkssturm, inhabitants of the town...
...three years the South China Sea had been the "covered way" of Japan's outer fortress. Through its reaches, protected by thousands of miles of outposts, Japanese convoys could ply between the home islands and the conquered south...