Word: flank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paraphrased Hendrik Willem Van Loon: ". . . Our left flank has been annihilated, our right flank has surrendered, and our centre is beginning to give way; we shall therefore proceed to the attack...
Some military experts have long thought that, rather than a suicidal attack on the subterranean forts, tank traps and concrete pillboxes that guard the French and Belgian frontiers, German tacticians might attempt a lightning flank attack through the lightly armed Netherlands...
...building had passed into private hands and fallen into neglect, the roof collapsed and the plaster began to crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum's newly acquired fresco has been transferred to a canvas and certain missing portions have been sparingly painted in. Yet, even at close range, the work unmistakably possesses the texture...
...further Secretary Hull could do or say. Without hindrance from any other Power, Japan by last week had taken unto itself 430,000 square miles of new territory, well sprinkled with blood. For 17 months it had bored like a host of deliberate, conscienceless termites into the vast stolid flank of Asia, strewing plains and rivervalleys with dead and wounded, and when Japan chose to tell the U. S. that there is a "new situation'' in Asia, all the U. S. Secretary of State could possibly say was that this reply was "not responsive...
Outstanding booter for the Crimson is Howie Mendel, fast left outside, a "finished player," and now high-scorer in the League. He has what Carr describes as "educated feet and scientific handling of the ball," and it is his left flank which is the mainstay of the forward line. On the other side Captain Johanson leads a fast running attack. Besides being second in scoring ability, he is the team's best trapper and header...