Word: regroupings
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...First-Class Intelligence." Before Britain could go ahead on any front, Prime Minister Attlee had to break this mood which, in various shades of distempered grey, permeated the national life. In September he appointed Cripps Minister for Economic Affairs. Almost instantly political, economic and social forces began to regroup themselves, like iron filings when a magnet is held over them...
...Democratic convention, he was picked by National Chairman Robert Hannegan to preside, did his bit for the Hannegan-Hague-Kelly steamroller. After the first ballot for Vice President-on which Henry Wallace had a lead-he promptly called for ballot No. 2, giving Wallace supporters no chance to regroup. One result: Jackson was an early caller at the White House when President Harry Truman moved...
...certainly they reflected the massive Allied air campaign against the German rail net which last week roared into its fourth week without a single day's interruption. Field Marshal von Rundstedt must have been thrown badly off balance. He had no doubt counted on plenty of time to regroup his forces, while Eisenhower prepared for the "naval operation" of crossing a bridgeless Rhine...
Last week had shown, perhaps more forcibly than the earlier weeks of the Red offensive's swift movement, the seeming futility of the German position. The Russians had paused to regroup and restart. They were in vulnerable positions, but there had been no German counterattacks worthy of the name. The week had made it clear that Zhukov could call his shots on any front in his own good time...
Possible Pause? He might well pause to regroup before assaulting this formidable river barrier (the bridge across the Oder at Frankfurt is 900 feet long), after his steel-tipped surge of 225 miles in 23 days. Lieut. General Patton had raced across France, some 300 miles in six weeks, before he ran out of gasoline...