Word: tactic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow itself. For the Germans driving eastward to the Don and the railway, were striking indirectly at Russia's heart, seeking to cut it off from the main body of the U.S.S.R. This tactic alone, if it succeeded, would be a crushing blow to Russia...
...policy is unnecessary, unjust, and unfair. It appears to be a hidden attempt to cover future deficits by current profits, a wartime tactic for which some of the nation's business men have been publicly attacked...
What keeps Dartmouth going is one line, three Sophomores, Harrison, Rondeau, and Riley, to wit. Against Yale last weekend Rondeau scored five of the Indians' six goals, and Thursday this trio scored 10 of Dartmouth's 16 goals. If the Varsity can bottle these three by defensive tactic and strike when other Indian waves are on the ice, the impossible might be achieved...
...stop the rout. As usual, Treasury officials refused to say how many bonds they had bought. But the Federal Reserve weekly report showed that 16 member banks had bought $38,000,000 in "Governments," thus boosting total holdings to $3,378,000,000-a new high record. The tactic was successful, since the bonds were above par at week's end. Cracked one dealer in Governments: "If the Treasury will take care of false air-raid alarms, we will take care of the Government bond market...
Blocking Moves. Fighting next settled down to a duel of attrition. The British stuck by their original bet-that if they could isolate the Germans east of Tobruk, they would eventually wear them down. The German tactic was to join all forces into one phalanx of machinery (south of Gambut) and take on the smaller British units one by one. Because the British were trying to maintain an encirclement, they necessarily had to scatter their forces. This gave the Germans, concentrating the remnants of one Italian and two German mechanized divisions, the advantage of being able to attack a brigade...