Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaped building on one side of the town square. He and his men fought Germans with rifle fire from room to room until the last enemies were chased out. Then two potato-masher grenades flicked in through the window. Two Americans were wounded. By the time another had sprung to the window, the Germans had disappeared into a doorway only ten yards away...
...trap was sprung just as the second Jap was starting down the bank of the creek bed. In a split second...
...major secret weapons revealed to civilians in this war have been the magnetic mine, rocket guns (such as the U.S. bazooka and the Russian katusha) and radar. The magnetic mine, sprung by the Germans on Nov. 18, 1939, was neutralized within a month (by equipping ships with degaussing girdles). Rocket guns are now in use both by Axis and Allied armies. Radar is credited with a very large share of British victory in the Battle of Britain. But Germany's radio locator has not enabled the Nazis to avoid defeat in the aerial Battle of Germany...
Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
...interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung up in the wake of the German retreat...