Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Huddleston of Alabama said early in the week: "The whole maneuver seems to be something like trying to pick up a pin with an immense pair of blacksmith's tongs. . . ."
When the German offensive at the Marne concentrated unexpectedly upon Le Petit Morin, the heights which General Foch had been assigned to defend with a pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount...
The strange ship Baden-Baden, with a black ball at her masthead to show she is a sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best...
There were three brief steps in making the bill into an act of Congress. Mr. Green, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, told the House: "I came back today with the best bill I could get." There was a small minority in opposition which wanted to recommit* the...
The French success was less a battle than a maneuver. There are in the neighborhood of 100,000 French troops now in Morocco, of which 20,000 or 25,000 took part in the action. Their overweening numbers made resistance futile. Consequently they had few losses. Two flanking movements starting...