Word: metzing
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...enemy knew that more blows like it were soon to be unleashed. They warned themselves of "grand-scale attacks" on Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s front. There the enemy had been given a foretaste: the hillside forts above Metz have been given preliminary dive bombings; 300 U.S. planes had given heavy tactical support. In the Nancy sector Patton's Third Army in four days had added more than 130 tanks (the equipment of a Panzer division) to its bag of 200 the week before...
Memories. In 78 hours last week units of General Patton's Third Army swept over the Marne near Paris, zipped through to Verdun and a minor battle. Within another 48 hours they were in Alsace, at Metz; then they were reported stabbing into the Reich's rich industrial Saar Basin...
...Patton had used Troyes, 90 miles southeast of Paris, as he had used Le Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
...North Dakota, who had known only prairies, horses, steam engines and a whirl through training camps, went to France. He arrived in the Toul sector on Jan. 19, 1918, where his outfit relieved some Moroccan soldiers near Beaumont. On a clear day the Americans could see the city of Metz. They said to each other that sooner or later they'd knock the damn place down...
...Rabbi Metz called these gags objectionable. Attorney Bromley revealed they had all been culled from Reader's Digest...