Crossword-Solution: BRIDGEHEAD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bridgehead | n. | A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BRIDGEHEAD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A strong position gained by an army inside enemy territory | 1 answer |
| Fortified place of a sort. | 1 answer |
| Forward position seized by attacking troops | 1 answer |
| Military foothold | 1 answer |
| Part of a combat zone | 1 answer |
| A DEFENSIVE POST AT THE END OF A BRIDGE NEAREST TO THE ENEMY | 11 answers |
| Post | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZACMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BRIDGEHEAD (5)
Come, you must own that this affair of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor rascality....” * Bridgehead.
Johnston, with equal skill, crossed the Chattahoochee under cover of the strongly fortified bridgehead which he had built unknown to Sherman.
But Macedonia is an important bridgehead to the Balkans and beyond (Turkey) and its web of trading agreements and arrangements makes it a virtual market of more than 110 million people.
And at every bridgehead you will show your pleasing countenance and your scarf of office to the guard and demand free passage for yourself and your family, as a representative member of the Committee of Public Safety.
Some reached the bridgehead even as Rateau made a dart forward, and two men were upon him before he succeeded in running very far.
Quotes with BRIDGEHEAD (3)
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil. (inside every hu…
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of
It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience; how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer, and an oppressor. In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. And it was only when I…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–2010).