Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each member of this band, Russia is an island lashed by angry capitalist waves. Each distrusts the outer world. Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
...regain a lost point on Europe's fringe, they launched an air and seaborne 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...
...landing in their rear. From Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel Island, east of Vella Lavella, the Japs evacuated a long-held seaplane base-the third position they had abandoned in less than a month.* Though the heart of Japan's defense was still untouched and intact, the fatty outer layer was shrinking...
...carrier task force steamed west. In the grey dawn, some 1,200 miles from Tokyo and well inside the perimeter of Japan's outer defenses, the big flattops turned their noses into the wind. From their flight-decks planes rose and headed for Marcus Island, a little apple tart lying on the blue spread of the Pacific...
...other flank of the South Pacific front-in New Guinea-U.S. and Australian forces humped towards oft-bombed Salamaua. The Jap's outer defenses along the jungly ridges protecting the Salamaua airdrome suddenly cracked. "All at once," said dispatches, the Japs evacuated their positions and retreated pell-mell to last-ditch defenses around the Salamaua airdrome...