Word: redoubt
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...information sought was mostly military--troop movements and supply locations. "Toward the very end of the war," he recalls, "the rumor has been received that Hitler was planning a last redoubt in the Austrian Mountains, but it was pretty much dismissed...
...they really wanted-besides Kuchel's victory -was headline recognition that they, too, speak for the Republican Party. And Styles Bridges disappeared back behind the scenes, pleased that he had prevented a bitter split yet protected his own brand of pre-Eisenhower Republicanism in its last important redoubt...
...steady flow of legislation designed, on paper at least, to give something to almost everyone. The Reds' major tactical aim: to create in Kerala an active, working base for the Indian Communist Party, a base modeled to a large degree on Mao Tse-tung's remote redoubt of Yenan, from which Mao won all China...
...heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt on the flank of American history...
...British gave General Phao a helicopter tour of the defenses, and persuaded him to help work out a "general pattern of operations" on the narrow Kra Isthmus, north of the Malaya-Thailand border. The British have evidence that the Communists are training new jungle forces in a safe redoubt across the Thai border. "We will have to be more careful about our future," agreed Thailand's tough General Phao...