Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deftly, without the aid of a theodolite, an OPA demonstrator shows wholesale butchers how to trim a full loin from a beef. Geometrically precise, anatomically specific was OPA's Maximum Price Regulation No. 169: "After the severance of the round from the hindquarter, the flank shall be severed from the full loin by a cut starting at the heavy end of the full loin at the ventral point of severance of the round from the hindquarter and continuing in a straight line to a fixed point on the inside of the 13th rib determined by measuring off ten inches...
Fury on the Flanks. For the time being, the Red Army's earlier offensives on the Moscow front and at Stalingrad seemed to be great flank assaults, diverting the Germans from the drives in the middle Don. At Rzhev and other points on the Moscow front the Red Army still battered at the Germans' interlaced strong points in a prolonged battle of attrition. Near Stalingrad U.P.'s Correspondent Henry Shapiro (see p. 40) discovered a mounting wave of confidence, along with evidence that the Russian armies were nearer defeat last September than the world then knew. Last...
...beyond Buna. Near the grass-thatched village of Tarakena a Jap machine gun fired on them. Japs in foxholes and trenches held the village. Young Schwartz, seeing his patrol outnumbered, deployed two men to pin down the machine gun, two others as snipers on the village's sea flank. The remaining nine men and Schwartz charged the village firing. Surprised Japanese, apparently believing themselves outnumbered, retreated into the snipers' line of fire, fell like tenpins. The advance machine gun was knocked out by the two men detailed to it. Schwartz and his men cleaned out the village, held...
...Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week had a new fighting front...
...They emerged like cats from everywhere, knives between their teeth. Flares did not frighten them. They broke into our right flank. Then the terrible thing happened that froze the blood of all of us. ... Men, women and children flung themselves into the attack...