Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Allies hit hard: U.S. sea attack, Dutch and U.S. air attack ravaged the Japs' warships and transports. But, if it had ever been early enough, it was now too late. The Japanese secured their bases in lower Borneo, in Sumatra on Java's western flank, in the Guineas, in Amboina and elsewhere in the east...
...mile battle line across the peninsula curled suddenly: as viciously as the peninsula's king cobras, MacArthur's men struck down surprised outposts. In 48 hours the enemy had been thrown back from two-thirds of a mile to as much as five miles, on the right flank north of Pilar...
...still paying heavily for his conquest of the Philippines. A crack regiment of Japanese regulars, harassing the defenders' left flank, lost out after a week of savage fighting to U.S. troops and Filipino scouts. The thinning line was still holding...
...Axis is in position to squeeze both Russia and the treasure of Britain's Empire, India, from east and west. But last week Germany was at work on Russia's western flank and Japan was at work on India's eastern flank. Japan was not yet attacking Russia's eastern flank, Siberia; Germany was not yet attacking India's western flank, the Middle East. But both were apparently preparing exactly those attacks...
...this juncture MacArthur chose to act on the opposite side of the peninsula. He concentrated his 155-mm. artillery on his mountainous right flank, slaughtering the massed Japs by hundreds, made an oldfashioned, cold-steel bayonet attack which sent the shattered Japs reeling back abandoning much equipment. The pressure on MacArthur's left promptly relaxed. On his 62nd birthday this week Douglas MacArthur was still chipper, still bucking up, his men by visits to his fronts. He said: "The enemy may hold the bottle, but I hold the cork...