Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans in 1940 did in France, the Russians hacked and slashed into the defense zones, cutting them to mincemeat, swallowing the pieces separately. Last week, after Polotsk, Borisov and Slutsk fell, giant jaws closed on Minsk, the last great Nazi stronghold in White Russia...
...Allies swung around craterlike Lake Bracciano, dashed into walled Viterbo, classical home of hand-ome fountains and beautiful women. More than 400 smashed Nazi vehicles strewed Highway No. 2 from Rome. Near Highway No. 3, outside Civita Castellana, General Mark Clark's men found the tunneled underground stronghold where Kesselring had joked with his staff, studied his maps...
Stoyan was flown into Yugoslavia early this month, landed ten miles behind the fighting front, was driven in a captured German Volkswagen to Marshal Tito's mountain stronghold (TIME, May 22). He is the first U.S. newsman to meet Tito face to face (they talked in Serbo-Croatian), the first correspondent able to short-circuit an interpreter and talk directly with the guerrillas, the first American reporter to enter Yugoslavia at all since Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel De Luce got in and out of the country seven months...
Last week Allied correspondents got their first look at Marshal Tito [Josip Broz and his Partisan stronghold in Yugoslavia.* On a bleak mountain airfield, ten miles behind the front, an Allied plane one starry night had deposited TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich, Reuters' John Talbot and two photographers. Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill, met them, started them in a captured German Volkswagen, toward Marshal Tito's hidden headquarters. This is Correspondent Pribichevich's story...
...decision made this General Conference one of the most momentous in Methodist history. Long has the Methodist Church been a stronghold of pacifism...