lebensraum

elintila puhekieltä Hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain.
1949: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, volumes 39–40, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NxwaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22lebensraume%22&dq=%22lebensraume%22&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=0&ei=RROtS9_yNabiygS65PDVDQ&cd=5 page 115 (self-published)

Geographers accepted this enlarged meaning of the term and spoke readily of geographical Räume and Lebensräume of peoples, even in cases where no real three-dimensional distribution was implied.

Even when there aren’t any explosions going on, when you’re scanning a distant compound with your sniper rifle, trying to decide which soldier would be the best one to kill first, before every enemy in a two-mile radius deduces your exact position like a vodka-drinking sextant, everything from a certain distance disappears into this weird glowing haze, like the Russians are occupying the surface of Mercury — which is beyond even the most liberal interpretation of lebensraum.