Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once before - at Lae - General MacArthur had landed in force at a supposed Jap stronghold, had found few Japs. They had been pulled off balance by an assault on Salamaua farther down the coast, had reinforced Salamaua at the expense of Lae. It appeared last week that something of the same sort had happened at Hollandia...
...those who looked into Wisconsin closely. For in the state Harold Stassen was regarded as an internationalist equal to Willkie ; Tom Dewey was much criticized by isolationists during the campaign for his advocacy of a British-American alliance last September; and finally, much of the Mac-Arthur vote - the stronghold of the isolationists - was cast by people who merely admire the General as a "favorite...
...Manhattan OPA moved to give the rich an even break. Inspectors cracked down on 73 eating places. Most were soda fountains charging stenographers a nickel too much for a ham sandwich. But also reprimanded was Café Chambord, last Manhattan stronghold for those who must have their pâté de foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle...
...Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them) to the "shores of Tripoli." O'Bannon and a motley crew of Greeks, Arabs and Egyptians marched across the Libyan desert to attack the Barbary pirates in their stronghold at Derna. After considerable derring-do, O'Bannon breached the ramparts, raised the Stars and Stripes...
...control seemed cinched last week when 1) a horseless cavalry division made the key of the Admiralty Islands (Los Negros) theirs for keeps and 2) Marines jumped closer to Rabaul, the failing Jap stronghold on New Britain...