Word: outpost
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From an artillery outpost on Leyte, Brigadier General Kenneth F. Cramer, deputy commander of the embattled 24th Division, watched the fight. Nearby officers noted that a Jap sniper fired every time the 50-year-old National Guardsman took off his helmet to mop his brow. Warned General Cramer promised to keep his hat on his glistening bald pate hidden...
...side of the ideological street. Bob La Follette took his stand as a hardheaded U.S. nationalist whose Midwest idealism has made him suspicious of foreign entanglements. Joe Ball, whose Midwest idealism has fired him with the vision of a warless world, pushed ahead to the farthest outpost of internationalist thought...
Only one building had not been blown apart-the small inn. In its basement were big casks of wine and rows of bottles. There each night went one U.S. outpost patrol. Thither also (at a different hour) went one German patrol. The patrols never met. They spied on, but never surprised each other. It was too good a thing to be ruined...
...slow fight through northern Italy began to speed up again. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies made their most rapid advances in weeks, passed Arezzo in the center, on the west drew close to the German Arno River line, outpost of the Gothic mountain line where the Germans hope to stand and hold...
Spearheaded by French colonials, Allied forces landed on the historic island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy, methodically cleaned up this small (19 by 6½ miles) German outpost on their flank. By nightfall of the first day, the Tricolor floated over the villa that Napoleon left for the Hundred Days and Waterloo. This week isolated pockets of Nazi resistance were being mopped up in the hills...