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...German position was something like that in the Falaise-Argentan pincers of last summer. Could the Germans get out? It was well to remember that last summer, when the Wehrmacht was less ably commanded than it is now, the Germans who had seemed hopelessly bottled in the Falaise trap were able to extricate five divisions of armor almost intact. If Rundstedt was content with the delay and damage already wrought against his foes in the west, he might be able to pull back to the West Wall without serious loss...
...through less than half the game. Bob Jenkins, the power runner in Navy's single-wing power attack, was knocked dizzy on the third play, went back to the bench until he could remember the signals. They were the two key men in Navy's expertly-executed trap plays, the team's best offensive weapon...
...Bradley's main effort, on the lower side of the wooded uplands of the Ardennes, which stretch across Luxembourg into the central Rhineland. Strategically the Third's campaign was still a part of the U.S.-French effort to clear the Germans from Alsace-Lorraine (and incidentally to trap some of the 50,000 enemy troops which had been holding the Vosges...
General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...
...incredible reception everywhere just about bowled him over - until he came to understand the G.I.s' "days of monotony, each one a carbon copy of the day before." The G.I.s were so starved for laughs that they would ignore any thing to see him open his famous trap...