Word: frontal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much chance have the Allies got to drive the Japs from the East Indies by frontal assault from Australia? Admiral Hart grinned at his questioner and said: "A frontal attack is always the most difficult-a flank attack always easier...
Certainly Japanese land and air forces did not fail for lack of effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...
Another probability not mentioned by Dr. Cloward was discussed thoroughly last month by Surgeons Walter Freeman and James Winston Watts of Washington, D.C. in a book on the frontal lobes (Psychosurgery; C. C. Thomas; $6). To enliven victims of deep depression and remove some of their inhibitions, Drs. Freeman and Watts cut through some fibers of the frontal lobes. They have returned a good proportion of their patients to their jobs. Like these patients wounded men who lose part of their frontal lobes (most civilized part of the brain, just behind the forehead) may lose self-restraint and manners, become...
Bony Caverns. The nasal sinuses are four pairs of hollow cavities in the bones of the lower forehead, the cheekbones, and the bones that lie behind the bridge of the nose. These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. They open into each half of the nasal cavity, like rooms off a corridor. Each sinus is lined with delicate membranes, which are furred with tiny hairs (cilia) and covered with sheets of warm mucus...
...also the first uncensored, firsthand report on fighting Russia by a capable U.S. journalist. Excerpts: "If Hitler cares to pay a fantastic price in men ... he may be able to encircle Moscow. From what I have seen, I do not believe he will be able to take it in frontal assault...