Word: pincer
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...trial, ordered out his scientific troops for a major assault on Biblical history. Find Israel's first army for me, he told an assembly of his country's leading archaeologists. Dig up the remains of Abraham's band of 318 men who pulled off a nighttime pincer attack at Dan and freed Abraham's nephew Lot from Chedorlaomer, King of the Elamites (Genesis...
...Communist Pathet Lao. Stiffened by Communist regulars from North Viet Nam, Pathet Lao bands have spread over the land while the talking went on, until fully half of Laos is under their control. The Pathet Lao advance, said a Western diplomat, is not "a push, drive, Panzer or pincer movement-just a leisurely walk through the jungle...
...Fisk "easily the most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...
...Khabarovo, about 700 miles to the east, its four cruisers, 40-odd destroyers and 50 to 100 submarines (some of them missile-armed) are positioned to dominate the far northern approaches to Europe. In time of war the fleet would provide the stronger arm of the naval pincer (the Soviet Baltic fleet is the other) by which the Russians would try to neutralize Scandinavia and challenge Western transatlantic sea lines. It would also serve as a mobile missile base...
...noon on the day after Christmas, 1,000 firefighters vainly were trying to hold back the flames' onrush; they built backfires, slashed wide firebreaks around homes with shovels and bulldozers. More families were evacuated as a second, then a third blaze ignited, joining in a savage and flaming pincer-like attack of destruction...