Word: flank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moldavian border, 180 miles northeast of Bucharest, Rumanian troops were exchanging shots with Russians. But suddenly the Rumanians turned their guns on the Germans, and Hitler's largely Rumanian-manned southern flank gave way to a Red Army romp. Behind the historic switch was an historic conversation-of the sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert...
Minutes later the first search planes headed out. Navy and Coast Guard patrol craft steamed out of Pearl Harbor. A destroyer squadron en route from the West Coast was ordered to the scene at flank speed. Aboard the ditched B-17 was a contingent of top officers from General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters. Among them: Political Adviser (and Ambassador) George Atcheson Jr., chairman of the Allied -Council for Japan...
...between East and West, the very fact that the 21 nations of the Western Hemisphere could discuss their common problems was reassuring and hopeful to the people of the Americas. For the U.S., deeply involved in both Europe and Asia, there would be satisfaction in knowing that the southern flank was secure...
...close to Harry Truman; it had put him in the Senate. The behavior of the Democratic Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation. Beaten earlier, the Republicans tried a flank movement in the final hours by holding up confirmation of Democrat Philip B. Perlman as Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed. At 3:50, disgruntled, unshaven and bone-weary after three nights of cat naps on cloakroom cots, the Senators tramped...
...slow-moving land armies. Behind the spearhead: eleven fully equipped combat divisions (some 132,000 men) freed from routine chores and immediately available to seize advance bases and begin the clinching land assault. The total: an Army and Air Force of 1,070,000 men, supported in flank actions by the 500,000-man Navy and Marine Corps...