Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing a valuable service by placating them and removing any immediate danger of attack on the Allies' rear...
...Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, the great U.S. writer on sea power, gave this definition of a popular theory which he rejected-the theory of the Fleet in Being...
...Military expediency'' was President Roosevelt's phrase for the combination of accident and policy which had brought about this state of affairs. In a military sense, the coincidence and the policy had produced some reward: General Dwight Eisenhower's armies had gained security in the rear; their enormous difficulties of supply and establishment were less than they otherwise might have been; the Spaniards in Franco's Morocco were not the menace they might have been with encouragement from hostile Vichyites...
...offensive. He knocked out the Luftwaffe. The onslaught was independent of and preceded by two weeks General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's ground attack. But when Montgomery's Eighth hit, air and ground were immediately coordinated in the third phase. Coningham's bombers pounded rear lines while his fighters strafed the front. All through the long desert chase Coningham and Montgomery worked hand in glove...
...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...