Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally the battered submarine, her engines straining, pulled out of the trap, still seaworthy. For more than an hour the two ships fought each other "like a couple of tomcats in the dark," the U-boat hurling torpedoes at the destroyer, the destroyer blazing away with her guns. At last, her superstructure shot away, the sub exploded and sank...
Rats! In St. Louis, William O. Buettner of the National Pest Control Association revealed the best way to catch rats: bait the trap with porterhouse steak...
Tank spearheads drove through the city, and continued in pursuit. Behind them came the bulk of Vatutin's army, estimated at 300,000. German garrisons of some 150,000 men withdrew before the trap was sprung. In Moscow, the Red Army's newspaper Red Star said proudly: "History has not known such a swift operation...
From Kiev, General Vatutin's army could now plunge directly west into Poland, only 130 miles away. Or it could swerve southwest, to try to set yet another trap for the German forces in the southern Ukraine. The weather in the south was still favorable, the troops fresh, supply lines from the east presumably restored in the past six weeks...
...fast columns closed in on the Dnieper's underbelly, one threatening to trap large German forces in the Dnieper bend, the other advancing toward the city of Kherson, formerly a big submarine-building base...