Word: enveloping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
Farther south, the Russians straddled the railroad to Minsk and Warsaw, advanced on Orsha, while a long and powerful spearhead between Orsha and Zhlobin threatened to envelop Mogilev and Bobruisk, the Nazis' two main rail junctions in the bulge...
Although the Allied move to envelop, capture and develop Cherbourg as a port was plainly behind schedule, the campaign was running smoothly, overcoming great handicaps. Said Bradley: "The Germans have lost their last chance to drive us into...
...Marshal Albert Kesselring, the Allied armies worked into position for a wheeling drive. Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth held the hinge along the Garigliano River, pinned down the bulk of ten Nazi divisions. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth butted to the Sangro River, threatened to envelop the German defense of Rome from the Adriatic flank...
Simultaneously other Australians struck across the mountains to envelop the enemy from Finschhaven to Madang 200 miles beyond. Jap troops on the whole Huon Peninsula were pocketed. Despite talk of new Jap planes (see p. 20), MacArthur held complete and vitally effective command of the air. It was a climax to MacArthur's New Guinea campaign, which according to Brigadier General Charles Willoughby, MacArthur's intelligence chief, had been fought with "pinchpenny precise planning." The margin of success was always so small that MacArthur could never "afford to be wrong...