Word: scatteration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came from). When guards and a chaplain rushed into his cell, he was dying. Meanwhile, near Nürnberg's old imperial Castle, a band of German children hung Göring in effigy. Then they burned the makeshift scaffold and silently marched around the fire, watching it scatter weird shadows among the rubble...
They Wish to be Loved. That the Germans will be allowed to scatter, Mann does not believe. He hopes (without much confidence) that a world state may develop and that the German, who never could fit into the pattern of the nations, will become a peaceable citizen of the world...
...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
...Scatter Technique. Last February the Anglo-U.S. heavies smashed German airplane production so flat that the Nazis began to disperse and hide their assembly points in small shops, hangars, garages. The Allies then promoted the German synthetic oil plants, which cannot be dispersed, to No. 1 target priority. The result, plus the loss of oilfields in Poland and Rumania, so parched the Nazis for oil that the Battle of France found them making heavy use of bicycles and horses. But the target switch gave German air production a chance to stage a slow, steady comeback. Allied experts now place...
...artillery and infantry are skillful at joint action. It is important for us to devise plans that will tempt the enemy to scatter and waste his fire...