Word: maneuverability
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"The Government has authorized the millowners to make advances in pay to the strikers. Congress supporters laugh at this maneuver and at attempts by the Government to persuade the millowners to recall the workers. 'We can keep the strike going indefinitely,' one Congressman told me. All known Congress...
When the destroyermen hit Tennessee, they had had three months of experience fighting tanks, began to bewitch and bewilder their opponents, almost swept them into the Cumberland time after time. They never seemed to sleep during a maneuver. They figured out where the tanks were likely to come (and usually...
His greatest ammunition is The Flag-and if he is to wave the Stars & Stripes before the voters this year he must do it in such a way that the citizenry will not resent the maneuver as capitalizing on their patriotism. As a man of conscience he cannot use the...
From fragments such as these the world learned of one of the great battles in history. "Not a single battle in past wars has shown such a picture of continuous movement and maneuver on both sides," said the army newspaper Red Star. "The enemy is forever regrouping for flank attacks...
War Horses. Now the horses of war were ready to ride. Bock took over the northern group of armies on the Polish border, Rundstedt the southern. Against the bewildered Poles, with their pennoned lances and their military roots still in the '90s, the two generals had little more than...