Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...
General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
...directions, once even roared "Tovarich!" at Joseph Stalin. The United Nations might have a few misgivings, but still there was no basis to doubt that Turkey's big hope is still to stay neutral. In World War I Turkey took a violent beating as an active flank of the Central Powers. In World War II, as a neutral flank of both sides, she has suffered no more than nerve strain and high cost of living. Neutrality lessens the danger of real conflict between those of her citizens who are pro-Axis (mostly upper and middle classes) and those...
...neck, Rommel hesitated, then massed his forces and launched them at El Alamein. Thirteen of his Stukas, dive-bombing the British guns, were crumpled by fighters from South Africa, and the guns kept firing. Meanwhile, from the south a British light force sped around to harry Rommel's flank. After eleven successive days of relentless attack, Rommel's weary battalions had to withdraw to reform and prepare for a new attack...
...mere threat of an offensive based on Suez, the Axis might well force Turkey out of her stubborn neutrality into collaboration with Germany. Then Russia would have the foe on her left flank, within reach of the Caucasian oilfields. But the threat would be greater than that. Once in the Near East, the German would be near British oil-the great wealth of the Iraq fields. These fields (with Russia's) are the last big oil source for a vast strategic area in which the Japanese have already snatched the rest of the wells. The sub-harried tankers...