Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then after the election he was TIME'S Man of the Year, for "to millions & millions of 'forgotten men' he was a big-jawed, happy Messiah whose 'new deal' would somehow put money into everybody's pocket." He was Man of the Year again after the Congressional election in 1934, when "the voters' verdict was not a mere stamp of approval; it was a paean of acclamation"-and he was Man of the Year for a third time after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime President, the leader...
These men could be depended on to fight hard-and they did. Even the Volkssturm fighting alongside them performed well. The pocket was believed to be plentifully supplied with ammunition, gasoline and food. It was thickly studded with towns and cities-easy to defend, hard to take...
...Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...
...week's end, the pocket was not much smaller than when the week began. The Allied commanders evidently decided that the Ruhr must be reduced at all costs-even the cost of delaying the push deeper into the heart of Germany. The Ninth Army redoubled its efforts, smashed into Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Essen...
...slept on the floor, jeeped to the XII Corps Headquarters, slept on the floor, changed jeeps for a 125-mile ride through spearhead territory, slept on the floor, jeeped back to Corps Headquarters through towns that exactly 20 minutes later were reoccupied by 5,000 Germans in a moving pocket, reached Corps Headquarters to find I had only 35 minutes in which to write the piece, on a German typewriter with letters in the wrong places, in order to catch the courier airplane back to the Army press camp...