Word: maneuverable
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The wily Goldwyn then executed a dazzling maneuver. He announced that the first night's receipts would be handed to the local Camp and Hospital Service Committee. Official Reno opposition vanished. Then Goldwyn had only to import a non-inflammable film (cost: $1,000) and build a false wooden...
Minister Ralston had been baited, by a purely political maneuver, into restating Canada's compromising manpower policy. The Parliamentary Opposition had demanded that Canada's 73,000 "zombies"-home defense conscripts-be made available as overseas reinforcements or released for war jobs. Minister Ralston flatly rejected both suggestions...
There was no room for Adachi to maneuver in the 7-mile-wide corridor of swamp and jungle. But anything was better than death by stagnation. So he lashed out to the west, hoping to drive the Americans from Aitape, 21 miles away. What they hoped to gain beyond that...
Or the Cherbourg maneuver might be repeated, with Allied forces striking away from German strength to cut off the Brittany peninsula, and seize the ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire.
On the Right. After the fall of Rome, Alexander smashed the German right with a brilliant trick. Through the tired formations of the Allied Fifth Army he secretly slipped an entirely fresh unit-the 6th South African Armored Division (veterans of Ethiopia and East Africa). The maneuver was a stunning...