Word: maneuverability
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He had left himself room to maneuver, and maneuver he did. His subordinates did the most extreme talking. All week long, generals, cabinet ministers and assemblymen heaped abuse on the U.S. and the pending armistice agreement, talked of resisting the neutral truce commission, hinted that they would .have to guard...
Structurally, Russia's change merely duplicates the occupation machinery of the three Western allies. Diplomatically, however, the maneuver has Westerners wondering. They guess that it presages a new and more formidable maneuver by Russia, aimed at sabotaging Western defense plans by appearing newly receptive to the idea of a...
Said Salan: "My decisions are made within a certain framework established in France before I took command. The framework is secret and personal." Salan described how he had stopped the Communists short of the Mekong River in Laos by creating hedgehog positions in the Plaine des Jarres and at Luang...
casualties are only half what they were in the same period last year. I am sending these charts to Paris." What General Salan did not say, being a professionally reticent man, is that the unpopularity of the war back home in France-and fear of its cost in casualties and...
According to the movie, the great love in Elizabeth's life was Thomas, Lord Seymour, lord high admiral of England. (According to some history books, Tom was an unprincipled wolf who tried to seduce the princess in order to maneuver his way toward the throne.) But there were complications...