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Word: enmeshing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chief of Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Great Illusion | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...systems calculated to hold the mass invader until mass help arrived. From Antwerp through Louvain to Namur ran another line of forts, completed in the last seven months. And across the Belgian hills for 100 miles ran a flexible wall of heavy steel fence set on rollers, calculated to enmesh all tank advances until defensive cannon could demolish them. In 1914, King Albert had to withdraw his forces from Liege after twelve days, first to Brussels, which fell in another four days; then to Antwerp, which held out 67 days longer, after the Germans turned on it to end Belgian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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