Word: seagirt
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...Saint-Malo, a lesser port on the northern coast, the situation was different. The Germans had 10,000 men in the defenses when a U.S. spearhead drove across the causeway and into the ancient, walled, seagirt city. By this week the U.S. forces had killed, captured or wounded 7,000 of them, held nine-tenths of the town...
...madman's hopeless situation: there was no escape. But he was in a seagirt fort, approached only over a narrow bottleneck of land. The Americans had battled past Saint-Malo's ancient walls and towers, past modern pillboxes to this last fort, set 50 feet deep in the granite, crisscrossed with underground tunnels...
...mountainous, seagirt Crete, 150 miles south, King George's refugee Government speedily repudiated General Tsolakoglou. Last week no Nazi banners flew beside the cool flags of Greece rippling over Crete. But above the island's snow-streaked mountains, above its olive groves and fields of fire-colored poppies, roared the Nazi advance guard-dark Stukas and silvery Junkers bombing Greek and British transports and warships in Cretan harbors...
Unlike the actual belligerents, The Netherlands with its little policeman's army of 100,000 has not the barest fighting chance of defending itself should its borders be violated. And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third most valuable colonial empire, has the most to lose. Invasion by Germany would be the strongest temptation to Japan to seize the rich Netherlands Indies, and the only force on which Queen Wilhelmina could possibly count to prevent such a grab is the British China Squadron based at Singapore...
Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...