Word: outflank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more moderate and rational post-Mao China back into the community of nations, will have to assuage China's fears. But the Soviets, who face a much more immediate danger from China, may be unwilling to pull back from any position that has enabled them to outflank a potentially dangerous enemy...
Proper Wasps still rule in tight little enclaves of high society that are rarely cracked by newcomers. Yet anyone with a will-and money-can find a way to outflank Wasp society, which is often haunted by a sense of anachronism. Such is the hostility to the Veiled Prophet parade, an annual Wasp event in St. Louis, that the queen and her maids of honor last year had to be covered with a plastic sheet to protect them from missiles tossed from the crowd...
...staff not to form the union, but they voted overwhelmingly to go ahead. The publisher retaliated by dismissing Executive Editor Roger Therond and Managing Editor Lacaze. Again the staff rebelled and voted to reinstate the editors. Prouvost backed down-for the moment. Abject Failure. But he soon proceeded to outflank his staff. Without ostensibly firing the reinstated editors, he installed a new triumvirate over them...
...main Soviet objective is to outflank NATO's land-based defenses?a goal that the Russian navy has partial ly reached by penetrating the Mediterranean. In a report to the Western European Union last November, Dutch Delegate Frans Goedhart warned: "It is no longer correct to speak of the 'danger' of the Soviet Union outflanking the NATO southern flank. This 'danger' has become a reality." To the north, the Russians have also turned the Baltic into a virtual Red Sea on which their warships now outnumber NATO forces...
...major point on the DMZ defense line, the barrier that U.S. forces have sought to string from the sea below the DMZ to the Laotian border. It now blocks off the easiest supply line that Giap has into South Viet Nam. By taking Khe Sanh, the Communists would outflank all the allied forces in Quang Tri province and part of Thua Thien province as well, probably forcing a fallback to a new defense line?perhaps as far back at Hué. As Giap well knows, Khe Sanh has become almost as vital symbolically as it is militarily; a Communist victory there...