Word: pincer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capture of Caen, they were held down and unmercifully pounded by German 88s. Grimly they hung on, giving U.S. Lieut. General Omar Bradley time to take Cherbourg. Grimly, after the surprise U.S. breakthrough at Saint-Lô, they pushed down and held the north arm of the Falaise-Argentan pincer. Only when that was done could the Canadians themselves wheel and cross the Seine...
Konev might make a strong thrust for the gap, pinning down German forces there, while the main Soviet offensive was launched in southern Poland, on the broad plain between the Carpathians and the Pripet marshes. In a pincer attack from north and south, Zhukov, enveloping Lwów, would find himself on the road to the Silesian corner of Germany proper...
...Finland, apparently on the ragged edge of dropping out of the war, the U.S. applied a merciless diplomatic pincer. (The Russian planes, blasting Kotka and Helsinki, were the other pincer-prong.) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the Finns a final warning to get out of the war (see p. 34). This was patient Cordell Hull's umpteenth move toward this effect...
...Hinge. The Germans did not encircle and destroy the Red Armies which had been moving toward the Dnieper. On the Russian side, what had been vanguard became rearguard and fought as fiercely going backward as it had going forward. What were to have been the arms of a German pincer west of the Donets embraced emptiness, converged, and drove frontally on Kharkov...
...week Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies crossed the Donets and captured Izyum on the railway between Kharkov and Rostov. The fall of Izyum meant: 1) that the Red Army had a springboard for a jump toward Dniepropetrovsk 125 miles southwest; 2) that Kharkov was threatened by a pincer arm from the south; 3) that Voroshilovgrad (whose capture was apparently imminent) had in effect been bypassed some 90 miles to the northwest...