Word: rampart
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...Nazis had taken this island rampart of the Balkans in twelve nightmarish days of 1941. Now the Greeks and British pounded the power station at Malemi, where the Nazi padded paratroopers had dropped two years ago. They ripped the radio post at Selino Kastelli, not far from the beach where a German seaborne remnant came through British naval guns. They strafed the roads behind Candia, where exhausted Allied foot soldiers had retreated...
...bishops spoke not only as good Catholics but as patriotic Germans. To Dr. Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister for Church Affairs, they pointed out the "rampart of bitterness and enmity" rising against Germans because of religious persecution in occupied lands, denounced Nazi persecution in language he could understand: "unwise politically...
...Trained Polish newsmen have returned to their country by airplane and parachute from Russia or Britain. Aided by radio, the handicapped newspapers have given remarkable coverage. Within a week after a Winston Churchill review of the war and a London address by Polish Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Szaniec (Rampart) of Warsaw carried the full text of both speeches...
...what's wrong with the old ones. Military music and jazz have always been quite close to one another. None of us, of course, is old enough to remember the New Orleans street bands, but if you'll listen to Bob Crosby's recording of "South Rampart Street Parade," you'll get an idea of the kind of stimulating, exciting music they played. I don't think it would be in any way sacrilegious to put a nice solid two-beat on tunes like "The Marine's Hymn," "The Caissons Go Rolling Along," and "Anchors Aweigh." In fact, the most...
...occupation of key points. A little farther and he could cut off the U.S. from all routes to the eastern battlefront except around Australia. But now the westernmost prong of the Japanese attack, in and around New Guinea, threatened even the U.S. route to Australia and raised yet another rampart across the Americas' Pacific routes...