Word: flank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until some 30,000 were reported killed on both sides. By week's end Japanese planes had bombed Suchow in preparation for a land assault and the Japanese forces pressed down toward the city's outskirts...
...North China, meanwhile, the 400,000 Chinese troops were holding off the Japanese advance in the Suchow sector with some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep...
...Army history encamped at Fort Sam Houston under the command of 60-year-old Major General James K. Parsons. First six weeks were devoted to a series of imaginary battles against a "Red" Army which the P. I. D., split up into small details, functioned successfully in attack, retreat, flank and encirclement maneuvers. Last week the P. I. D. had had time to become sufficiently well coordinated to show what it could really do in the way of rapid motion. On Nov. 8, after a breakfast of 12,000 apples, 24,000 eggs, 560 Ib. of coffee...
...Guild's turbulent campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, where 300 employes out of 2,300 have been noisily on strike nine weeks. The Eagle, first major New York City paper to be struck by the Guild, has been attacked not only frontally by aggressive picketing, but on the flank by a Guild campaign directed at Eagle advertisers. At Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store a Guild demonstrator in a gorilla suit dashed up and down escalators until women's wild shrieks brought police. Said the sign on the hairy picket's back...
...that carried the Crimson attack within the enemy ten yard line increased his lead over Bob Fearey for the left end post due to his all around play Saturday. Mainly through his defensive play against the highly touted Brown end sweeps, Joe Koufman tightened his hold on the right flank post...