Word: trapping
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Open to his army were opportunities: 1) to trap the Germans left in The Netherlands; 2) to flank the West Wall at Cleve, and lead a drive to occupy the Ruhr and cut the communications of the Germans in the Siegfried Line...
Then, for almost four months, Bob Davidson fought his own war against the Germans. From eyewitnesses, he collected detailed robomb data and even drawings. Working with the F.F.I, he cut telephone wires, stretched ropes across highways to trap German dispatch riders. He raided German guard posts to steal guns and documents. "We'd steal explosives and carry them away in sacks. Two or three days later a bridge would blow...
With these he set a trap, destroyed a big German convoy, drove on into Dijon, cleaned out the town. When French troops arrived next day, the captain, the sergeant, the Maquis and the U.S. tanks were occupying Burgundy's capital...
Meanwhile, the King's fellow plotters set a trap for Antonescu's leading collaborators, summoning the first by telephone and forcing him on arrival to call up another. Four or five arrived and made calls, among them the War Minister and the Prefect of Police. All were imprisoned within the palace grounds. That night Mihai proclaimed Rumania's surrender to the Allies and the overthrow of Antonescu...
...Italo Frederick Volini, professor of medicine at Loyola University Medical School: "If this is a question of suffering and needless pain, do ... the ladies who have come here with furs on their backs . . . consider the suffering of some little animal, caught between the steel teeth of a cruel trap and left to die?" Mrs. McLaughlin retorted that she did not make pets of minks and muskrats...