Word: flank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cart, Churchill wearing a ten-gallon hat, inspecting Eisenhower's butterfat Black Angus cattle. They sat on the glassed-in sun porch discussing the famous battle. Then Eisenhower took Churchill hedgehopping in the helicopter along Lee's line of advance down the Cashtown Road, along the left flank of Pickett's charge, down the Union position from Cemetery Hill to Round Top. Churchill, old Civil War buff, discussed divisions and division commanders with sure style...
...senior officers' school at Devizes in southwestern England, his classmates nicknamed him "the snake charmer" because of his ability to argue them into undertaking improbable courses of action in field problems. (He once got the members of his team to send hypothetical tanks off to the left flank, though everyone knew that this routed them through a deep swamp.) A British officer-instructor, less impressed with Kassem, marked him "sincere, hardworking, completely unbalanced...
...repercussions of the Cyprus quarrel had grown too dangerous to tolerate for either Turkey or Greece, whose amity is precarious at best, had only been painfully re-created after the killings and mass transfers of their two populations after World War I. The Turks, now threatened on their southern flank by Nasser's annexation of Syria and by Communist infiltration in Iraq, needed friendship with Greece In order to secure their western flank. The Greeks, after winning little sympathy In NATO, had failed to get a strong U.N. resolution on Cyprus last December. This apparently was the turning point...
...West is "at war" with the "Russo-Sino bloc" on a global scale, and that the Big Three must have "organic consultation." De Gaulle asked why the U.S. had failed to support France in the U.N. vote on Algeria, which the French (and the French alone) consider a "flank of NATO." Dulles in general welcomed the idea of increased French participation in Western councils. But Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani had bustled over to Bonn a few-days earlier in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Adenauer and Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano that other NATO powers would thus...
...presents, Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters in a flank-speed turn as Cinemermaid Esther Williams, sheathed in tight red slacks and sweater, pranced aboard the Navy submarine U.S.S. Trout in New London, Conn. Purpose: to play hostess on NBC-TV's Omnibus documentary on submarine training. It was Producer Robert Saudek's idea, based on the theory...