Word: railhead
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...foreign intervention during the Russian Civil War after the 1917 Revolution, and at various tunes it was occupied by Japanese, British, Italian and French forces, as well as some 9,000 American soldiers sent by Woodrow Wilson in August 1918. The interventionists vied for influence over the Trans-Siberian railhead off and on until 1922, when the new Bolshevik regime in Moscow finally managed to extend control over the Far East...
...real estate. All along the border, artillery exchanges and firefights kept the situation tense and dangerous through the week. Scene of the biggest battle was a slender salient of India that points sharply into East Pakistan some 20 miles west of the Pakistani city of Jessore, an important railhead that leads to key ports on the Bay of Bengal. Early last week, according to a Pakistani general, one battalion of Indian regulars operating alongside a battalion of Mukti Bahini crossed the Indian border point of Boyra. From there, camouflaged with netting and supported by tanks and heavy artillery, they thrust...
...powerful Nazi army captured the obscure Russian town of Mga, a railhead east of the Baltic. The Nazis thereby severed the last overland link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union, clamping an iron ring of men, armor and artillery around the beautiful city first raised by Peter the Great. Thus began the most murderous siege in modern history...
...much for even Nasser, whose security police had been urging him for months to get rid of the troublesome Congolese. He ordered remaining Simbas rounded up, then packed them aboard a government airliner and shipped them out of Egypt. When last seen, they were headed for Kigoma, the Tanzanian railhead on Lake Tanganyika...
...Jakob of the book's title is a line dispatcher in a smoggy railhead city on the Elbe in East Germany. The story opens with his death-run over by a switch engine one foggy night. Was it an accident? Suicide? Was he pushed...