Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradley's main effort, on the lower side of the wooded uplands of the Ardennes, which stretch across Luxembourg into the central Rhineland. Strategically the Third's campaign was still a part of the U.S.-French effort to clear the Germans from Alsace-Lorraine (and incidentally to trap some of the 50,000 enemy troops which had been holding the Vosges...
General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...
...incredible reception everywhere just about bowled him over - until he came to understand the G.I.s' "days of monotony, each one a carbon copy of the day before." The G.I.s were so starved for laughs that they would ignore any thing to see him open his famous trap...
...after Los Angeles the campaign suddenly stalled. After the San Francisco and Los Angeles speeches, many Republicans feared that Tom Dewey had fallen into the fatal Willkie "Me Too" trap. (In San Francisco, Dewey had done nothing more shocking than to say, in effect, that if the U.S. has discarded Adam Smith's economics it cannot continue to hang, tooth & nail, to Thomas Jefferson's politics. In Los Angeles, he had merely said that if the U.S. is to have Social Security, it should be there for all.) But some GOPsters shook their heads, and Hatchet-man Harold...
...First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap for the German Seventh Army (TIME, Aug. 28). Hodges ran off these plans without raising his voice and with rare recourse to his spare vocabulary of profanity...