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the beachhead
noun
An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material
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The beachhead was engulfed in flame.
"Google needs to go beyond the beachhead they have.
This could be the beachhead of Loxosceles laeta in Los Angeles".
If Queens was the beachhead for Ecuadoreans, Bushwick was regarded as something of a frontier.
A U. S. Army lieutenant named Wilson, who censored press copy on the beachhead, published from time to time a typewritten newspaper of his own called "The Beachhead Bugle".
The interior of one business, the Beachhead Restaurant, was turned into a jumble of mud, food, menus and turned furniture.
Difficulty arose in extending the beachhead, however, and by the third day of the operation the outlook was gloomy.
But the Bay of Pigs invasion was a fiasco; every man on the beachhead was either killed or captured.
Up from the beachhead, he moved across France in combat and was severely wounded in Belgium in November 1944.
"He knew it would be the beachhead to get the post office out and the station built.
But the means of getting people to the beachhead is broadly the same, whoever you talk to.
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