Word: envelopment
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...said, was originally thought of by its foes as a big federal power company designed to compete with and envelop private companies, a force destructive to private enterprise. "Actually," he continued, "it is the natural outcome of the conservation policies of Theodore Roosevelt, as well as those of Franklin Roosevelt." The late Wendell Willkie, in the midst of the battle between the TVA and Commonwealth and Southern, said to Lilienthal that "no region in which the government so interfered would ever be prosperous again because investors would be discouraged. But the TVA, its head maintained, has stimulated private industry...
Belfort, a stronghold for more than 700 years,* and a formidable assault objective, was thinly held. Histrionic Delattre de Tassigny (his officers call him Le Général de Théâtre) attempted no frontal siege. He sent his infantrymen over the snow-sogged hills to envelop the city on three sides, finally reduced several of its forts by artillery...
...Russians might not attempt to take Budapest by frontal attack. But the forces moving northwest could wheel over to envelop the city from three sides, pounce down on Pest. Buda was in danger from a Russian force which was reported to have crossed the Danube far south in Yugoslavia, begun a march north on the west bank of the river. And northwest from Budapest the plain is flat...
...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...