strangle

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He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations.

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But everyone at the Pentagon recalls Korea's Operation Strangle, an Air Force effort to prevent Chinese and North Korean supplies from reaching the front in 1951.

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General Cannon had said something like that of the Operation Strangle.

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In spite of the U.N.'s high losses, the battle has not been one-sided: since Operation Strangle started, the U.N. claims to have destroyed 900 Red antiaircraft gun positions, damaged 443 more.

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Such rampant weeds Strangle each other, die, and make the soil For Caesars, Cromwells, and Napoleons To root their power in.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron