Word: rear-guard
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...purposes have been in large measure accomplished-but only in the face of an exasperating rear-guard action by RFC officials who are still fighting the war with peacetime red tape, corporate technicalities, and . . . unnecessary caution. . . . All this, and I want to emphasize it, is bureaucracy at its worst; it is utterly inexcusable in a nation...
...Prime Minister Churchill broadcast to the world that "decisive fighting" was on in Africa, another American column attacked Axis forces fighting a desperate rear-guard action down the Gabes road south of Sened and Allied planes pounded the Mareth Line with new fury...
...Cunningham, wanted: 1) permission to use Dakar as a base against Nazi U-boats in the South Atlantic; 2) use of French Fleet units at Dakar. From Darlan in particular, Eisenhower wants the status quo maintained in Morocco and Algeria so that there will be no transport interruptions or rear-guard threats to Allied forces now attacking Tunisia...
...flight compared with the weary, eight-month-long, 1,500-mile retreat of the "Ten Thousand Greeks" under Xenophon in 401 B.C.; the 1,000-mile retreat of Charles X of Sweden from Yaroslavl to Warsaw in 1656. Rommel had fought a moderately successful rear-guard action, covering his trail with anti-tank guns and mortars. He had also been lucky. Cyrenaica's rainy season had slowed Montgomery's pursuit...
...gracefully with Rommel's 21st, 15th and 19th light. But even that was denied them. When it became obvious to Rommel that there would be little chance to hold anything between Daba and the frontier, his Panzers dissolved, disintegrated and turned tail, leaving the Italians to fight a rear-guard action...