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Extraction point: the location designated for reassembly of forces and their subsequent transportation out of the battle zone. Fabian strategy: avoiding pitched battles in order to wear down the enemy in a war of attrition. Fighting withdrawal: pulling back military forces while maintaining contact with the enemy. File: a single column of soldiers.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
The OED records "break through" used in a military sense from the trench warfare times of 1915, when the Observer used the phrase in a headline. [2] The Online Etymology Dictionary dates the metaphoric use of "breakthrough" - meaning "abrupt solution or progress" - from the 1930s, [3] shortly after Joseph Stalin popularized the Russian equivalent (Russian: перелом, romanized: perelom ...
One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories.
A breakpoint is an execution stop point in the code of a computer program. Breakpoint or break point may also refer to: BCR, the gene that encodes the breakpoint cluster region protein; Break point, in tennis; Break Point, a 2002 novel by Rosie Rushton; Break Point, a 2015 U.S. comedy film; Breakpoint (demoparty), a German demoscene party
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Editor’s Note: Get 5 Good Things in your inbox each week by subscribing to 5 Things right here. I’m not much of a hugger. Sure, I’ll bust out the warm fuzzies for relatives around the ...
The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with ...