Word: maneuverability
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The Germans claimed they buzz-bombed Manchester last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), but they didn't hit John Barbirolli. Conductor Barbirolli and Manchester's famed Halle Orchestra had pulled a surprise maneuver. Despite military hell and the English Channel's high water, they were touring Belgium right...
¶ The maneuver by Will Clayton, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to dispose of $15 billion in Government-owned lands through "the hierarchy of the National Association of Real Estate Boards."
Here Halsey and his carrier forces, under Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, struck with a fury and a complexity of maneuver partially explained by the Navy's announcement that under wizened "Pete" Mitscher were five subordinate admirals, each with his own task group.
Hell-for-leather Lieut. General George S. Patton fumed, and he had reason. A tank expert who specialized in roving maneuver, he was now forced to measure his progress in yards. His Third Army was barred from the Saar by defenses west of the Siegfried Line. Core of his army...
For two weeks the Germans had achieved stalemate-of a kind. Pressed back by the contracting geometry of strategy to a greatly narrowed area of action (see map), they could and did mass some of the largest concentrations of guns yet seen in the west. Behind their West Wall they...