Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railway strike was broken. Before he went to Capitol Hill to ask, dramatically, for his strikebreaking measures, Harry Truman was reasonably sure that he had won the railway war. But the baffling civil war was not won. There was still John Lewis, glowering on the left flank-or was it the right flank? Joe Curran, clearly on the red left, threatened to tie up merchant shipping on June 15 by calling out the maritime unions...
...cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
...Turkey and the Middle East, crucial southern flank of Russia's Drang nach Westen, the U.S. sent its showiest battleship, the 45,000-ton Missouri...
After six months of Russian occupation, Manchuria's industry is destroyed; it was apparently the Soviet Union's dual desire to rebuild Russia's own factories with Manchurian equipment, and to weaken China on her Asiatic flank. Mukden has been reduced from a great industrial city into a tragic, crowded way station on the Russian-controlled railroad to Dairen. A strong China is not Russia...
...days things went with unexpected smoothness. Then, suddenly, the road got bumpy. General Chang insisted that the Government must occupy Communist-claimed Jehol and Chahar provinces, on the flank of the overland route between North China and Manchuria. General Chou sharply dissented. Plainly upset, he stalked out. "Regrettable!" he muttered...