Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia to France. The Assembly cheered the General. But it reserved its most thunderous ovation for the voice of Moscow-an hour-long address by one of its own members: veteran Communist Florimond Bonte, his party's expert, on foreign affairs. Salient points...
...week's end the Germans had completed a successful "disengagement." But the Allies, too, had done well. The Nijmegen salient, which had once stuck out toward Arnhem like a slender and sensitive thumb, was now a broad, strong fist, securing the whole left flank of the Allied line. The Berlin radio asserted that Montgomery was mounting a new attack against Arnhem, had already dropped "sabotage parachutists" north of the celebrated bridge. From Aachen to Arnhem, the Germans dug in deeper, and waited for the big blow...
...repeated and expanded on the attack he had begun in Chicago (that the Roosevelt Administration is old, tired, quarrelsome and defeatist); and opened a new salient by stating the simple fact that in 1940, after seven Roosevelt years, there were still 10,000,000 unemployed in the U.S. He named this the "Roosevelt Depression"-and for the first time the New Dealers were really on the defensive...
...western front, where Allied spearheads had pierced the fatherland, the Germans fought in fierce gusts of frenzy, and with high military skill. The U.S. First Army held the spotlight on this front, as it widened and deepened its salient north of Aachen. The aim was for a breakthrough that would sweep the Germans back to the Rhine-but the pace was grinding and generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing...
...salient point about China's coming democracy," continued the Oriental geographer," is that in China for long ages past sound historical and philosophical foundations have already been laid. The doctrines of historical materialism and class struggle are not only alien but also repugnant to the Chinese mind...