Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Old hands to the Road's tricky 14-mile course, the British quickly swung into a 3 to 1 lead, needed only one more victory to rule the waves. Then a minor disaster sent the Americans' fortunes even lower: the helmsman of Goose (from Oyster Bay, N.Y.) fell...
Moscow's cease-fire overture is "only a maneuver - to calm things down in Korea in order to open fire in another place . . .
But as the week ended, the room left for maneuver and compromise had almost vanished. Now, even if Mossadeq wanted to, and he didn't, he dared not back down. Nationalization was still a highly popular slogan in Iran. The Communists-inspired Tudeh Party had easily whipped up 10...
1. In late January Pentagon strategists, perplexed over Chinese intentions, began calling the fight in Korea a "war of maneuver," in which the main objective was to:
Combat training in thickly populated, highly cultivated Germany is not as simple as in the vast forest and desert areas of the U.S. Fighter bombers must fly across the Mediterranean to Tripoli for target practice. The Army's biggest antiaircraft guns must be transported up to the Danish frontier...