Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wing Commander Robert T. P. Davidson, 27, of Vancouver, is a seven-year R.A.F. veteran who has fought in almost every theater of war, earned a D.F.C. Last week a report of his latest exploit came from Britain...
...motif of that pattern was on the point of being repeated again last week, the same motif repeated often before. It is a simple motif: strike a staggering blow, exploit it while the German army reels; then, as the enemy begins to recover, repeat the same thing at another point...
...calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...
...Conferred at Albany with Running Mate John Bricker. To newsmen, who tried to exploit the pre-convention gap between the two governors' international philosophies, Dewey answered crisply: "We found ourselves in disagreement on nothing...
...miles from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland. The stretch had been excruciating for the Germans. It was possible that the Soviet high command had not originally intended to stretch it so fast, to keep so much of it in motion at one time, but-always quick to exploit an unexpected weakness-had been encouraged to do so by the self-acceleration of the German catastrophe. Maintaining the supply lines to feed such an offensive seemed, to the outside world, a greater problem than beating the Germans in battle. But it had been done...