Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the job had been well done. Major General Clifford R. Powell learned by reconnaissance that he had less than a division in front of him, won by turning the enemy's right flank while hammering heftily on the left...
Some of the most aristocratic schools in Britain backed the bill: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse. Their existence depended on its passage. Financial troubles had already forced one public school, Weyrnouth, to close down (TIME, April 28.) The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic...
...Empire leans on geographic strong points. Knock down the buttress of Singapore, and the whole eastern wall of Empire falls. Knock out the Suez Canal, and British power in all the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean collapses. Last week the enemy was clearly developing a huge strategy designed to flank Suez. It was hard to tell whether the super-parenthesis being formed through Libya and Egypt was stalled or just pausing; probably it was pausing to wait for the ripe hour. And on the other flank in Iraq, using the old Hitlerian devices of politics, fears, racial hatred, the enemy...
Tobruch, lying on the flank of Axis communications across the Libyan desert, had been held by a small British garrison ever since the initial German drive. Before the Axis attack on Egypt went any farther, it would be wise to try to knock...
...underarmed Greeks suffered dreadful decimation and almost ceased to exist as a fighting force. For the rest of the campaign the Imperial force had to stand virtually alone, since the main force of the Greeks was facing the Italians far across the Pindus Mountains to the west. The flank and rear of the Imperial force was therefore threatened again, and a withdrawal to Thermopylae was ordered...