Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policy of intensive raiding attracts general attention. When, as at present, the famous shock troops are being used persistently, we may be sure that it is not for the ordinary daily attrition. Raids have been made almost continuously, and with a remarkable intensity of artillery fire and fierceness of attack. The High Command is evidently feeling out the weak spot for the great attack. They cannot hope to wear out the Allied armies by these minor tactics, they are only a prelude to greater events. A raid of one or two companies on a short front will show...
...will it furnish a better training to the cadet than he would receive at a Barre or a Tobyhanna? Chief among the arguments that it will is the theory of the heretofore unheard-of co-operation among different arms of the service. No longer will the infantry in an "attack" upon a position be forced to depend for artillery preparation and support upon red flags waved from hilltops. Real artillerymen will be present with real guns, the opportunities for practice in liaison will be great,--but this is as far as the advantages run. Practically speaking, the actual gunners will...
Once more the Freshman halls will be filled with the khaki-clad cadets; once again we will effect reliefs at Fresh Pond and counter-attack at Waverley. Although it is to be only of six weeks' duration so as not to disrupt the College year, indications point to as fortunate a camp in 1918 as was that which graduated so many trained men to Plattsburg last year...
...this command have been having a fine time killing Germans. All three of them have been in it, especially one. I suppose you read about their splendid work. They killed them with picks and anything that came handy. I was out there the two days before the counter attack, and, of course, went out the minute we received the news over the phone, but things were comparatively quiet. The whole outfit volunteered to go into the trenches and a good many of them...
...goal being accidentally registered by Skilton of the Navy Yard team in a scrimmage in front of the Navy Yard's net. The latter player was easily the star of the game; his great experience and that of his team-mates proving too large an obstacle for the informal attack to overcome