Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket, drove to within ten miles of Strasbourg. Considering the relatively small forces involved, Strasbourg's recapture would be a juicy political plum for the Nazis...
Smart General Patton had brought plenty of artillery into the Bastogne pocket. Thirteen battalions of big field guns laid down a two-hour barrage. The paratroopers heard German wounded screaming in the woods. Of 28 attacking German tanks, 21 were knocked out by artillery, three more by U.S. tanks and tank destroyers. The other four fled...
Faced by this sudden threat to its rear, the Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...
Last week neither the Russians nor the Germans said anything about some thing happening or about to happen on the Warsaw-Vistula front. The Germans alone told of something happening in the Latvian pocket above Riga. Berlin said the Red Army had "sacrificed tens of thousands of men" to gain one penetration...
...come in. So he set up a force of "public relations" men who checked daily on new building permits. They interviewed home builders before the ground was broken, often got them to let Barker's supply everything from paring knives to bedroom suites, at prices for every pocket. Tables cost as little as $10, as much...