Word: stronghold
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This week, the Russians stormed into Bryansk, pivotal stronghold of the Nazi's central and southern fronts, after overrunning the railway network on the east bank of the Desna, climbing over the bodies of some 2,000 German troops...
...great in some sectors that the Germans abandoned much heavy equipment in the flight. Some mobile units raced to within 16 miles of Kharkov, one encircled several Nazi garrisons. A powerful secondary drive starting from Chuguev, 25 miles southeast of Kharkov, threatened a new pincers squeeze on the Ukrainian stronghold...
...broad-leafed jungles aquiver last week as they roared an unexpected challenge to the Japs in Salamaua. Somehow through the jungles Allied 105s and other artillery had miraculously been lugged into position. With the aid of the guns Allied troops began storming the gates of the Japanese stronghold. Having chopped and shot their way through jungle to within five miles of it, they now needed artillery to battle for high ground...
...Though the belief that our world was the material center of the Universe has long been dead, the supposition that it was . . . unique in being the abode of creatures who could study the Universe has lingered long. Now this last stronghold of the old way of thinking has fallen, and there is no longer a basis for supposing that either this world or its inhabitants are unique, or in any way the 'first, last and best of things.' The realization of this should be good...
...Initiative. Upon this action hinged the success or failure of General MacArthur's new offensive. The occupation of the Woodlark and Trobriand Islands had been a mere drawing together of the new offensive line. The landings of troops below Salamaua had put greater pressure on that Jap stronghold, but the numbers of men involved were small, the action bitter and slow because of the difficulties of terrain, the prize of less strategic importance than New Georgia. Could the U.S. hold the initiative in the Solomons, or would the Jap be able to reinforce and doggedly hold...