Word: maneuverability
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Between the lines of a routine handout about an ostensibly routine military maneuver, Canadians got a quick glimpse at the lowering future.
The Program. Eduard Benes was the link between Czechoslovakia's democratic past and the uncertain present. His great talents for compromise and maneuver which he developed and used in the prewar years stood him and his country in good stead now. A prewar French biographer, Pierre Crabites, said of...
Molotov's maneuver sorely displeased Jimmy Byrnes. Said he: such a proposal was not on the Foreign Ministers' agenda, and therefore he was not prepared to discuss it. Thoroughly angered at Molotov on other points, Britain's Bevin at first sided with Byrnes. But the Dominions, headed...
The left wing fumed. It wanted a Fourth Republic. But it did not want any lofty treatment. It talked of forcing a Cabinet crisis, then thought better of such a maneuver. It condemned the General's election machinery as "not conforming with true proportional representation."
When war came to the Pacific in 1941, Halsey, a vice admiral and commander of aircraft carriers, Pacific Fleet, was running task, forces of big ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap...