Word: flanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlift of troops, arms and supplies to the Black's west bank. He also dispatched a force from the Hanoi perimeter to the confluence of the two rivers. This force occupied the war-battered village of Hunghoa, cut two Communist communication lines, and threatened the left flank of Giap's three divisions between the rivers. It seemed possible that the Reds would have to retreat or come out and fight in the open, where French planes and artillery could get at them. In any case, the next move was General Giap...
Since they lack a domestic program which appeals to the "great masses of citizens," Key said that the test of the Republican's strategy is whether they can "chisel down the Democratic following by flank attacks on the subsidiary issues--of communism, corruption, and foreign policy...
Walter was hunched up in his windows seat. It was in Matthews, or else in Weld, I have forgotten which. Both Halls flank Grays. It was in the after-luncheon doldrum time of day, when mankind in its senses should be ossified and not prodded. Walter was tired out: "brain fag", the railroad men would call it. He was ripe to be keynoter at a convention on explosives. And all unconsciously, he was just that, for the convention sat in silence in a score of open windows...
...other a cliff of marble and translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals of the 60 United Nations...
Thick Dossiers. Of several hundred Communist kidnapings in West Berlin, this was the most flagrant, and it raised the angriest protests. Dr. Linse had been a painful thorn in the Red flank. The Investigating Committee of Free Jurists (TIME, Dec. 18, 1950) compiles thick dossiers on the crimes of East German officials, on information obtained from refugees and from well-concealed underground sources in the Soviet zone. Three weeks ago Linse gave the West German newspapers his latest data on East zone rearmament. The secret Communist price on Linse's head was believed to be comparable to that...