Word: pincers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This pincer plan was outlined in a memorandum prepared for the War Department last summer by Rolf Nugent of the Russell Sage Foundation, who since has been doing further work on the problem for OPACS Chief Leon Henderson. Nugent suggested a 25% excise tax on automobiles, coupled with larger down payments and fewer months to pay the balance. His estimate : time purchases of automobiles (which now account for about two-thirds of all new car sales) could be cut in half by requiring a 50% down payment and the balance in ten months...
...whether reports like these were true, as they might be, or just part of the war of nerves, the British had still to consider seriously the possibility that the Germans, in developing the giant southern claw of the Suez pincer (see map, p. 29), might attack Egypt not along the coastal road but on a front deep enough to get away from naval bombardment and wide enough to flow right around islands of British resistance...
...Italians could not run fast enough last week. The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force...
...reached Bengasi did not pause even for a last sentimental look at the white houses, the long rows of mimosa, the great marble fagade of the Berenice Hotel. They beat it to the south in headlong flight-only to come smack up against the southern jaw of the pincer. With claustrophobic fury they threw tanks, field guns, even suicide troops with gasoline bombs, against the British ring of mobile steel. But the British held, and soon the Italians gave...
...Wang Ching-wei's defection from the Chungking Government and the subsequent collapse (they hoped) of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Wang fled but Chiang stayed. That meant the Japanese would have to fight some more. Their plan was to try to engulf Chungking in a giant pincer, north and south. A sudden drive, almost unresisted, took Nanchang to the South. But then the Chinese had a series of successes greater than any they had enjoyed in the whole...