Word: flanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right Flank, Left Flank. Protecting Twining's flank came General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff, who was ready to help fight the President's war despite the fact that the Army is suffering from budget and manpower cuts. "Our setup in the Pentagon," he said, "is defective in that we do not have this permanent command post [at the Joint Chiefs level] ready to conduct military operations at any hour of the day. The Secretary of Defense is a man who has been given great responsibility. I must say you can't discharge a responsibility without...
...Canadian border would be brought into action, pinpointing the targets in the sky with their radar, and directing their destruction by antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear-warhead rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...
...changes in this week's Crimson team are a sign of the strong competition for places, but injuries have also played a part. Flank Ash Hallett is a doubtful starter due to flu, and the side's two outstanding 200-lb. props, Charlie Eaton and Derek Henderson, are both out for the rest of the season, as the result of an old football injury and a displaced cartilage respectively. Replacing them will be French law student Philip Monnot and freshman Warren Young...
Charged with holding NATO's southern flank and the entire Middle East from Communist penetration, the 500,000-man Turkish army forms the largest national contribution to the West's European forces. Along with the somewhat less impressive army of neighboring Greece--currently distracted from full co-operation by the divisive Cyprus issue--the Turkish army is responsible for defending a 1400-mile armed frontier stretching from Albania on the west to the Russian Cauccasus on the east. Yet, despite recent Soviet missile threats, this exposed position involves hazards that are nothing new for the Turks, who for centuries, have...
...operates against the background of Christianity." Mikoyan once said to a friend: "I am not a man to invent policies but to carry them out." Nonetheless, Soviet specialists in Washington believe that such features of Khrushchev's foreign policy as the subtle method of taking the West by flank movement, by intrigue and envelopment of neutrals rather than by head-on attack, bear the stamp of the agile Armenian. These days Mikoyan likes to tell visitors from the East, as Stalin did before him, "I am an Asian too." No Soviet leader has been a more frequent visitor...