Word: flank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move came as a surprise, since Vander Eb has had no previous experience at end. But it has been no secret that Harlow's flank men were not panning out too well. And Joe Koufman, promising Junior end who was ineligible last year, will be hors de combat for several more days with a body injury...
...Moselle River (see map). Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches of the Maginot Line and Westwall, facing each other across the Rhine from Lauterbourg south to the Swiss border, lay quiet except for occasional, experimental artillery exchanges. Soldiers of both armies were reported bathing on their respective sides of the river, in full view of each...
Washington is a 9 o'clock town. Lights that burn late mean not hilarity, but grim business. Last week significant night lights glowed in the two huge, forbidding grey piles that flank the trim beauty of the White House-the Treasury on the East, the State Department on the West...
...ready to go the moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler had to press was the announcement that Joachim von Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia. At midnight, irresistible hour to lovers of mystery, the Fuhrer pressed the button...
...main battle against Poland settled to a deadlock; the flank attack through the Balkans did not progress...