Word: maneuverability
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Last week the House, which clearly wants a hand in World War II treaty-making, was quick to respond to this maneuver of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bald Representative Carl Hinshaw, California Republican, promptly introduced a brace of resolutions under which the Senate could consider treaties only after the House...
Next day Hearst agreed to publish the marines' reply, fully expecting to be keelhauled for promoting interservice jealousies. Instead the marines concentrated their potshotting not on Hearst but on General MacArthur. The marines' argument (which had to be laundered before it could be printed): MacArthur generally lands on...
Nazi Futility. The Germans could guess again-what was Zhukov's master plan? Would he try to maneuver the Wehrmacht into a showdown battle to save the capital? Or was he aiming at Berlin's encirclement or seizure as a swift, possibly decisive stroke?
Gleiwitz was also typical of the Russians' complexity of maneuver all along the front. The industrial basin had not been Konev's only aim. More important was his second objective: crossing the unfrozen Oder River.
* In old New Orleans, blaring Negro bands were carted through the streets on the slightest pretext; the trombonist sat well back, over the parade wagon tailgate, where he had elbow room to maneuver his slide.