Word: flank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Icelandic patrol boats Maria Julia and Thor bore down on a pair of British trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of Iceland's coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from the trawler. Reluctantly, the skipper of the Eastbourne took...
...Right Flank. Nonetheless, the heaviest fighting in Algeria since De Gaulle's return to power (45 rebels killed, 64 captured) made it plain that the Algerian revolt was by no means ended. And on De Gaulle's other flank-the right one-the balcony generals of the French army were applying unrelenting pressure. Without bothering to consult De Gaulle, military authorities in France last week seized issues of two of the Parisian papers most frequently suppressed under the Fourth Republic-France-Observateur and L'Express...
Achievements that even the Western scientific community only dimly realized a few years ago now make up a dazzling catalogue that any country could boast about. Sputniks and ICBMs aside, Russia is pushing ahead at flank speed in vast areas of science, and of all programs put through for the International Geophysical Year, its is the biggest and most ambitious. The Soviet Union has the largest (10 billion synchrocyclotron volts) particle accelerator in the world-nearly twice as powerful as the one at Berkeley, Calif., though it has not yet lived up to its expensive expectations. Russia put its first...
...Twining's other flank was the Air Force's General Tommy White: "I completely agree with the President's concept that separate ground, sea and air warfare are gone forever and that peacetime preparation and organization must conform to this fact. It is essential that our combat forces be organized into truly unified commands and that our strategic and tactical planning be completely unified." But what of the "dangers" in the legislation? asked committee members...
...Flank Speed. Marine Commandant Randolph McCall Pate damned the presidential torpedoes, sailed flank speed ahead. Fearful that the traditional role of the Marines as a Johnny-on-the-spot expeditionary force might be curtailed-or just plain obliterated-four-star General Pate declared: "I don't see anything wrong with the way we're functioning...