Word: vise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first German ground troops crossed the Belgian border at 5:30 a.m. at Gem-menich, only 15 miles from Vise, where they first entered in 1914. Furious air-bombing ahead of their mechanized advance made up for any lack of surprise. They overwhelmed the key fortress of Eben Emael, commanding the junction of the Albert Canal and the Meuse River. Its commandant and 1,000 men surrendered within a few hours, paralyzed by "nerve gas" or some other secret German weapon. But unlike 1914, Belgium was not wholly unprepared this time. And even more than then, she was heartened...
...Army account, the Garand is accurate at ranges up to 600 yards (far enough for ordinary combat). N. R. A.'s Garand was disgracefully inaccurate at 600 yards and less. On a 600-yard target, with the gun locked in a bench vise, its shots at the end of 60 rounds were hitting six feet below the mark. Reason: ". . .The barrel . . . warped or buckled as it heated from our slow-fired shooting (only 130 shots in three hours...
...United States should admit to itself that a war is going on, and in reasserting its determination to stay out of it, face the fact that neutral countries in Europe will be crushed in a vise, whether economic, diplomatic, or military. We cannot stop this. If only blood can wash away the strange quirks in the human mind that breed war, as some have said in justification of the present conflict, there is still no reason why it must be done with American blood...
Well she might. For if any outline of the Allied Supreme War Council's spring strategy could be drawn last week, it was this: to continue holding Germany in a vise by land and sea; to help Finland resist Russia in the north; to make that resistance stronger, and at the same time tighten the vise-grip on Germany, by "formidably" threatening Russia on the southeast...