Word: dashing
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...southern doorstep of Japan's homeland, and down through the westernmost reaches of the Pacific, Admiral William F. Halsey's U.S. Third Fleet bombed and maneuvered with unprecedented power and dash. The Japanese had no difficulty reading the signs...
...First's smart exploitation of its part of the battle was proof enough that Courtney Hodges was the versatile, complete tactician: he could stand and slug, or dash and slash...
...Home Stretch. It was the end of the trail for the German commander. He and other generals with remnants of five divisions had tried to dash out of Belgium into Germany to get behind the West Wall. But they had failed. Within 48 hours one U.S. armored and one U.S. infantry division had trapped and virtually destroyed them. Nearly 25,000 prisoners had been taken and two or three thousand killed...
...rules, the dash to Germany should have slowed up days ago, to consolidate and regroup units, let the quartermasters catch up. But this was an extraordinary operation: in the long history of wars the world had seen nothing like it before...
...Purple Heart from World War I and one of the service's least reliable tempers, Eisenhower gave command of an army. Some days after the Germans had announced the fact to the world, General Patton was officially unveiled as leader of the victorious Third Army in its dash to the Seine. After that, no one could complain...