Word: hit-run
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...propaganda bullets were as ineffective as the lead ones. The Red position worsened. After nine days' fighting, Communist Chen Yi abandoned the field, slipped north to his old Shantung stamping ground, where he could return to harassing hit-run tactics...
...assistant chief of staff of U.S. intelligence in Germany, wrote for the New York Times Magazine a remarkable analysis of how Germans rationalize their plight: "It has been said by someone that the German 'little man' has a suppressed desire to be killed some day by a hit-run driver on a pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor. . . . His sense of discipline would be satisfied (for didn't the green light order him to go?) and his suppressed love for the tragic, his eternal longing for Valhalla, would be satisfied...
...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...
...course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...