Word: frontally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High Command said the frontal menace to Moscow was growing graver by the hour with the annihilation of Red Army forces trapped in the Vyazma and Bryausk areas. It said the number of Russian prisoners taken in those pockets had surpassed 350,000 and was climbing steadily...
Meanwhile, Catholics are making a more direct frontal attack on bigotry. In 1916 Georgia was the most anti-Catholic State in the Union, thanks to Catholicbaiter Thomas Watson's attacks. In that year the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia began writing letters of protest to Georgia newspaper editors whenever it did not like the news they printed about Catholicism. Through the years the number of letters has fallen from 100 a week to about two a month. Says Editor Richard Reid of the New York Catholic News, who for 21 years led this campaign of putting pressure...
...decided to do things the hard way, perhaps the unnecessarily hard way, by making a frontal assault on the Union position, expected Longstreet to advance at dawn. At 10 o'clock the front was still quiet, and Lee cried out: "What can detain Longstreet? He ought to be in position now." Noon passed, and Longstreet did not feel ready to undertake his seemingly tough assignment. Not until 3:30 did the advance begin; it was 6 when the Confederates actually got a brief foothold on Little Round Top, only to be driven back. Had Longstreet won that bastion...
...Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal, although it failed in its frontal assault on the Court, in 1937, was able by indirection to get the Nine...
Military observers believed that Hitler could gain a cheaper victory by invading Eire than by a frontal attack on Britain itself. Idle at German bases were two new 35,000-ton battleships, two 26,000-ton battle cruisers, perhaps two pocket battleships, at least three heavy cruisers and five light cruisers in addition to destroyers and submarines. A surprise attack on Eire using this force as escort might easily succeed if British ships, scattered widely on many duties, were not available to engage it. Once in Irish ports, the Nazis would be difficult to dislodge...