Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...send strong air forces to protect Formosa, the Communists will grab it eventually and use it as a springboard to tie up with the Huks in the Philippines...
...Portuguese territory where we are banned from the newsstands-e.g., the Azores Diario reprinted our Stalin cover story. Less gratifying is a habit, practiced by such papers as the London Daily Worker, of taking one sentence out of context from TIME and using it as a propaganda springboard...
...Historically, Formosa has been used as a springboard for just such military aggression directed against areas to the south. At the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, it played an important part as a staging area and supporting base for the various Japanese invasion convoys. The supporting air forces of Japan's army and navy were based on fields situated along southern Formosa...
...would not be necessary, but for the misemphasis placed upon his death by newspapers and individuals everywhere. Men of as different political persuasion as Bill Cunningham and Howard Fast have chosen to consider his death solely in political terms, using it as a springboard for their own opinions...
Besides Formosa, Nationalist China has another beleaguered island redoubt. Oyster-shaped, about twice the size of New Jersey, with 3,000,000 inhabitants, Hainan Island lies in the South China Sea, only 15 miles from the Red mainland. The Japanese used it as a training ground and springboard for their conquest of Indo-China, Malaya and Singapore. From Hainan last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder reported...