Word: flanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already has 367 miles of Soviet frontier to defend. If Iran falls behind the Iron Curtain, 290 miles more of Soviet frontier (plus a likely invasion route, past Mt. Ararat) will be added to Turkey's defense problem. From a military point of view, Eisenhower's right flank is certainly stuck away the hell and gone out into enemy territory...
Unseen Searchlight. Columbia's cyclotron yielded its first meson beam about a year ago, when Dr. Eugene T. Booth (now working on a secret Government project) was in charge of the great machine. Since then, the meson beam has played like an unseen searchlight around the flank of the cyclotron, lighting up dark corners of atomic physics. The mass of the quick-vanishing pi meson has been measured accurately, as well as its "spin," which is something like rotation. Dr. James Rainwater, the present boss of the cyclotron, is finding out what happens when mesons hit protons, neutrons...
NATO's front, like the ocean sector it is named for, stretches from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. In the northern and central sectors, General Dwight Eisenhower and his fellow commanders have a solid organizational line, running from Scandinavia through Middle Europe. But on the southern flank, NATO ends with Italy. It does not embrace Greece and Turkey, the guardians of the eastern Mediterranean...
...argued that NATO's resources might be spread too thin at their expense, and that NATO might lose its character as a North Atlantic community. The U.S. answer: there would be no lessening of American aid to northern Europe; there could be no NATO stability if the southern flank were left exposed. In conference at Ottawa this month, chances are that NATO will formally open its doors to Turkey and Greece...
From the Korean battlefront came new evidence of the enemy buildup. In a week of careful probing, U.N. patrols identified two new Red armies (some 150,000 men) in the line. On the east-central flank, massed Red guns swept Eighth Army patrols off a strategic hill. Allied warships plastering Wonsan harbor for the 161st straight day encountered more powerful shore batteries. U.N. jet fighters were pounced on by MIGs, freshly equipped with wing fuel tanks which would enable them to operate far behind allied lines. Hundreds of Russian-made tanks maneuvered north of Kaesong...