strangle

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

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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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Strangle swung his body over upon the fish's side but never relaxed his merciless grasp.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher