Word: outflank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloodthirsty Paraguayans were attacking about 60,000 dogged Bolivians. Should Paraguay break through, she will win not only the Fort, but the best motor road in all South America, leading straight into Bolivia's rich Villa Monies oilfields. Paraguayan cavalry columns moved northeast in an effort to outflank the Fort and all night long the sky was yellow with shellfire, while swaying ambulances going back passed heavy munitions trucks moving...
...Canoe,"† Steady promotion carried Joseph Joffre by 1911 to the post of Chief of the French General Staff "at only 59." What he called "Plan 17" was soon ready. He merely pulled out and unfolded it when Germany declared war. As the German armies advanced, Joffre tried to outflank their right (seaward) wing, they tried to outflank his left (seaward) wing and the two flanking operations (both perfectly sound) became "the race to the sea." Nobody won the race. It merely strung out the fighting lines. Terrible pounding began. The armies of France were forced back and back...
...Hindenburg Cabinet" was ready. A middle-of-the-Reichstag list, it looked like 183 Centre votes. On left and right the Communists, Socialists and National Socialists would be able if they combined (and these extremes of fire and ice have combined in German politics more than once) to outflank the cabinet with an encircling 218 votes and defeat it when Dr. Bruning faces the Reichstag...