Word: peninsulas
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...Axis. By the time the U.S. persuaded Churchill to undertake a Normandy attack, Eisenhower had commanded two more seaborne invasions during 1943: Sicily and mainland Italy. They were sideshows in his eyes -- and the Italian campaign quickly bogged down into a bloody mile-by-mile struggle up the peninsula -- but they taught him a great deal about the complexities of such operations. Equally important, he and Generals Bradley and George Patton emerged from the North African and Italian battlefields as first-class combat leaders...
Much of the 50-day battle of Normandy was a reinforcement race: Could the Germans bring in enough armored divisions to destroy the Allied army before it was strong enough to break out of the peninsula? By the beginning of July the Allies had landed more than 1 million troops, 566,000 tons of supplies and 171,000 vehicles. Having failed to drive the Allies back into the sea, Hitler chose to throw all he had into a decisive fight in Normandy rather than withdraw to another defense line along the Seine. But when U.S. forces under Bradley did finally...
...possibility of another war on the Korean peninsula has forced the U.S. to step carefully. The Administration has been equally anxious that a nuclear- armed North Korea might touch off an atomic-arms race destabilizing all of North Asia. The crisis-a-month inspection drama narrows maneuvering room for each of the partners, pushing them closer to a showdown. And amid the maddening back and forth, there is a disturbing possibility that North Korea may be employing the fuel-rod dispute as a smoke screen to disguise a second, undeclared source of bombmaking uranium...
...letter, I implied that many of Peninsula's writers attended "strict religious schools." A few of the current members of Peninsula's staff have let me know that this is not the case with the current board, and that they mean to take action against this statement...
Again, I should restate my claim: most Peninsula members have not been "educated in strict religious schools" but rather are the products of "strict religious upbringing." For, as Peninsula members now know first hand, one word can make all the difference. Inie Park...