Word: strongpoints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither team at this stage appears the decided favorite. Although the Crimson last year shut out Tufts, 5 to 0, Coach Munro has lost most of his best linemen through graduation. The defense, headed by captain-goalie Whoop Batchelder, will be Harvard's strongpoint...
...visit was immediately overcast by news from the north. Communist armies, quiet for more than two months, had begun to roll southward again. From Peiping, the Red radio announced that General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria, was advancing into Hunan province on two fronts, apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east and west of the town. Another big battle was shaping up in western...
...Aviv, which twists from the city through the rocky Judean hills to the coastal plain. The city's Jewish population, which used to buy 80 to 90% of its food from neighboring Arabs, now depends on food convoys from the Jewish settlements along the coast. One strongpoint on that road is the village of Kastel, a cluster of dirty stone huts, one big house and a mosque. Jewish Haganah fighters, after seizing it, held it early last week. Then, one morning at dawn, the Arabs counterattacked...
...sample of what will happen eventually to all pockets. French armor, backed by U.S. artillery and aircraft, began the flattening of German-held positions on both sides of the Gironde estuary, which had blocked the use of Bordeaux as a port. In three days the Allies captured Royan, main strongpoint on the north side of the Gironde. The hopeless Germans continued to battle bitterly...
Building the Bastion. Meanwhile, the Nazis went ahead with preparations for their last stand. In Bolzano and Klagenfurt concentrations of 55 troops were reported, and work was being rushed on fortifications. Hitler's own Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the mountains around the Nazi strongpoints now bristle with defense works, repair shops, arms and munition depots. The caves of the ancient salt mines around Königs-See have been converted into subterranean hangars and air-dromes; into factories making guns, planes and synthetic gasoline...