Word: flank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marty, French Communism's third in command (a longtime opponent of Thorez' "respectable" policy of collaborating with bourgeois politics), pounded the table. Cried he: "If we allow this situation to develop, we will have broken our most important tactical rule, which is never to permit our left flank to be turned...
...soldier's abdomen, the surgeons grafted tissue to give the hand form. From his foot they got tendons (which the foot could get along without), from his thigh, slippery tissue for the tendons to slide on; from his calf, sections of nerve; from his hip, a piece of flank bone. Transplanted, these body materials in a few weeks gave the soldier a new hand, not perfect, but good enough to do carpentry with...
...neck of the Yellow Sea a great fleet of junks had plied, bringing captured Japanese arms to the Shantung Communists, ferrying Eighth Route Army soldiers to Manchuria. The Nationalist Victory pocketed the Shantung Reds between the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway and the sea; and in Manchuria, it strengthened the Government flank for the ultimate drive north on Harbin...
...pair of brothers, both well over 200 pounds, feature the Husky line. They are Milt Dropo, 220-pound center, and Walt Dropo, a massive end of some six feet five inches who weighs in at 200. On the other flank will be Charley Christensen, a speedy 18-year-old who played regularly last fall. That the Huskies pack beef as well as experience on their line a brought out by the fact that only one tentative starter--co captain Charlie Molloy, a guard--is under 220 Pounds. The tackles are AI Yukma and John Brink, with Stedman Herman teaming with...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...