Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans east of Tobruk, they would eventually wear them down. The German tactic was to join all forces into one phalanx of machinery (south of Gambut) and take on the smaller British units one by one. Because the British were trying to maintain an encirclement, they necessarily had to scatter their forces. This gave the Germans, concentrating the remnants of one Italian and two German mechanized divisions, the advantage of being able to attack a brigade at a time. Advance British units pushed on west of Tobruk...
This Catholic dilemma traces back to the shortage of priests when America's first great flood of Catholic immigrants-the Irish-arrived in the wake of the 1845 potato famine. Rather than have these largely rural Irish scatter to country districts and lose their faith through lack of contact, the American hierarchy under the leadership of New York's Archbishop John Hughes decided it would be better to concentrate them in the cities, where the relatively few priests available could cope with the crowds...
General McNair's reference to the rout of Italian troops by Russian airmen in Spain was pointed: In the first Battle of Louisiana, soldiers on the ground had been noticeably more inclined to stop and stare at attacking aircraft than to scatter and try to shoot them down...
Satan's ranks will scatter, Wotan's swarm depart...
...Price. He lives in an old 18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...