Word: feint
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...battleship Missouri steamed far up Korea's eastern shore, fired 16-in. gun salvos on Samchok, important port and rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
Harry Truman had been trapped by the feint, caught off guard. But now he was ready again, and the swordplay went on in earnest...
...next Red advance seemed to be Indo-China, shakily held by French forces against a large Communist rebel army (see below). The most ominous rumblings last week came, however, from the vicinity of Formosa (see below). U.S. headquarters in Tokyo thought that the Reds might throw a feint at Formosa in an effort to draw fire from the U.S. Seventh Fleet; that would give Red China's Mao Tse-tung a perfect excuse (if he wanted one) to throw the Chinese Red army into the war on the side of his North Korean friends...
...Navy's Seventh Fleet* "to prevent any attack on Formosa." Thus if the Korean invasion was a feint and a prelude to a Chinese Communist attack on Formosa, the U.S. would be there to block it. In exchange for this protection, Harry Truman called on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government to cease provocative bombardment of the Communist-held mainland...
...Israeli military campaign had been a brilliant, hard-won success, highlighted by a fast three-day invasion of Egypt. Driving down the Egyptian right flank (after a feint at Gaza on the coast), the Israeli forces plunged headlong into Egypt and fought their way to El Arish, over 50 miles behind the frontier...