Word: pincers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east of the city at the mouth of the Grand Canal, or to the west where they also could mass river craft...
...moated walls had been pierced. The Communists claimed that his army was segmented and being chewed up piecemeal. If true, this left the Nationalists in a serious position. Both Li and Chiu had seriously overextended their lines in the effort to save Huang, and left themselves wide open to pincer attack. The next move was up to the Communists...
...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...
...Pincer Movement. For three days the two governors jockeyed for capitol office space like raccoons snatching at pieces of cheese. On the first day Hummon got nothing better than a desk in a side office. But that night he had the locks changed on the doors. The next day he strode in at 7 o'clock and grabbed the desk in the executive office-from which Arnall had thoughtfully removed all his correspondence. Gathering impetus, Hummon also moved his family into the governor's mansion (which Arnall had vacated also), and left his wife and mother happily "unstopping...
Arnall beamed at the opportunity thus presented for speech. Cried he: "Last night under cover of darkness there was performed a perfectly executed pincer movement in which the locks were removed from these doors. This move was backed by the military forces of the pretender, Talmadge." Then, while the curious alternately booed and cheered and occasionally shot off firecrackers, he took over an information desk in the capitol rotunda...