Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being fought, and its first phase was now won, straight out of antique textbooks. The Greeks found in these first weeks of the war that the newfangled trappings of war were traps for those who used them in this terrain. The Greeks reverted to an old tactic: with bayonet and grenade they stormed heights from which their fire drove the enemy out of valleys below. With this tactic they pushed the enemy back on the central Pindus front. With necessary modifications of this tactic they pushed the enemy back of the Kalamas River on the flat coastal front. Devout Greeks...
...through their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing at the same time into the darkness according to prescribed directions, forming a curtain of flying shrapnel. Splinters clattered like hail over...
...hopeful side, Britons argued that defenses had forced the Germans to try one tactic after another. First they tried to crush the Air Force by daylight dive-bombing attacks on airports; that failed. Then they went after communications and industries; that failed. Next they tried indiscriminate daylight mass bombings of London; that only stiffened morale. Last week they resorted to late afternoon bombings with incendiaries to light beacons for all-night mass bombings. Whether or not that was a failure remained to be seen this week. From all accounts, it seemed...
...massed bugles of the German and Italian propaganda band last week played louder & louder their new tune: Britain would be hard to invade, the "new tactic" of the Axis was to bomb out its arteries, starve out its defenders...
...Germans' "new tactic," said Telegrafo, had a simple aim: "Starving the British...