BEACHHEAD


Meaning of BEACHHEAD in English

noun

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But music, not words, was the cultural beachhead of the new invasion.

In 1976 the counterculture still had a solid beachhead in Athens, Ohio.

In support of the build-up of beachheads, naval ships, directed by observers ashore with assault forces, fired on shore targets.

Many journeys of pilgrimage are made to the invasion beachheads.

Westerners call what they have established out here a civilization, but it would be more accurate to call it a beachhead .

What they seem not to understand is how difficult it will be just to hang on to the beachhead they have made.

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