Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese hoped then to curl back to east and west, encircle and crush the two Chinese halves. But the Chinese struck north along the flanks of the Japanese salient and threatened to encircle the would-be encirclers. The Communist guerrillas, whose inaction in their areas behind the Japanese lines had contributed to the initial Japanese success, began to fight...
...private theory of the Mediterranean's importance in the war. The Donovan theory: think of the Mediterranean as running north & south, not east & west. Then it becomes a vast No Man's Land between two fronts: the European Front, which is Germany's (with a British salient in Greece), and the African Front, which is Britain's (with a German salient in Tripoli). So long as the British can keep patrolling this No Man's Land with their Navy, and can keep the salient in Greece, defensively Germany is not safe. She must drop...
...case for Aid to the Small Democracies becomes clearer and more powerful every day. Salient and unanswerable arguments are gaining more and more prominence, restating and implementing Hoover's idea of "stiffening the morale" of the conquered peoples. Keeping these people from starvation is, they say, a better weapon against totalitarianism than the weapons of force. The failure to do so would, it is claimed, drive the small people into the arms of the Nazis because they will hate Britain and America. This may be putting it too strongly, it is true. There is plenty of evidence of chafing under...
...defense, the Philippines group themselves into three sectors: Mindanao, the Visayans and Luzon. Mindanao, which has 18,000 Japanese concentrated around Davao (pop. 95,444), is patently a salient, to be yielded in the face of an overwhelming assault. But the Visayans and Luzon, with 95% of the Philippines' population (16,356,000) and industry, form a tactical unit. The narrow, treacherous outer passages of the Visayans can be mined, and in protected inner passages light naval craft could lie in relative security between sorties against an invader...
...their real problem was Defense. Retailing, they knew, would be the first salient in the as-yet-undrawn line between guns & butter in a war economy. They are in the butter business; how would it fare...