Word: regroupment
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...Therefore it was not surprising that Lord Beaverbrook, inveterate roarer for a second front, should roar again to the peers of the realm: "I believe that the war is not won. Whatever may be the plans of the Germans, we should strike and strike now, before the Germans can regroup their divisions. We should strike before the Germans can recover from the Russian offensive...
...Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...
...dioxide into glucose in the presence of light, these pigments transform ferrous sulfate [Fe (SO4)] into ferric sulfate [Fe2 (SO4)3]. The ferrous compound consists of two "ions"-a positively charged iron atom linked with a negative sulfate unit. Under the influence of these pigments and light, the ions regroup themselves into the ferric form-two positive units linked with three negative units. And in the dark this reaction reverses itself. Regrouping of the ions upsets the electrical balance of the solution, creating electrical potentials...
...convoys and patrols; now that the Neutrality Act was virtually repealed, it would soon move in with increasing numbers of armed merchant ships. Allied convoys were larger and better escorted. Germany had admitted that Britain's greatest tactical advantage lay in Iceland, where convoys put in to regroup their ships according to speed and value before the last dash to British ports. U-boat wolf packs were still extracting heavy tolls,* but improved depth charges and Allied defensive technique were growing more effective...
...cricket news. They considered the return of the German Air Force to the west as a triumph for the R.A.F., though it meant trouble. They stopped worrying about being invaded, resting on the hope that after the Russian battle Adolf Hitler could not give his troops rest, move them, regroup them, re-equip them and send them across the Channel before another spring...