Word: ramparts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
When death cut short the boisterous career of Huey Long, Maestri (who backed him long before he became the Kingfish) was his Commissioner of Conservation. New Orleans, the last rampart which held out against Huey's domination, gave up a few months later. Big-beaked Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley (known to Huey as old Turkey Head) resigned, and burly Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh) certified Candidate Bob Maestri to the job. Normally, Maestri would have come up for reelection in 1938. But Leche talked the Louisiana Legislature into giving Maestri a six-year term...
...from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...