Word: clamping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon military security would clamp down on the President's movements again. He and the U.S. would get back to their main business-winning...
...victorious trend of the fight for Leyte Island, whose capture will give U.S. Army forces a strong clamp on the mid-Philippines, did not change last week. But the complexion of the fight was altered considerably. The Japs stiffened, and they brought in help from other bases. It looked as though U.S. communiqué writers had been overconfident again...
...could not immediately use the vast Palau fleet basin. But airfields in the southern Palaus would serve: 1) for bombing the Philippines-if MacArthur invaded the central Philippines instead of Mindanao, Peleliu would be closer to the invasion coast than Morotai; 2) for air patrols which could clamp the northern Palaus in a neutralizing vise. Last week marine flyers based on Peleliu were already strafing and bombing Babelthuap...
...sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...
...Japanese took a leaf from the strategy book of General U.S. Grant. As Grant had sliced off the western half of the Confederacy by his Mississippi campaign, the Japs worked, with fearsome force, to cut off the western side of the clamp fastened on the Empire (see map) by Allied strategy...