Word: outflank
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...There, in the vicinity of Mount Ararat, the West's defenses end-and Soviet opportunity begins. An offensive rolling through Iran and on to Iraq 120 miles away might easily overrun the West's advanced air bases at Habbaniya (Iraq) and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). It might also outflank Turkey and open the back door to Europe...
...general was as good as his word. In 1863 Thomas W. Knox, correspondent of the New York Herald, wrote a story blaming the failure of an attempt to outflank the Confederate defenders of Vicksburg on Sherman's faulty disposition of troops. The general's orders were so confused, wrote Knox, that "discussion . . . with respect to his sanity was revived with great earnestness." This was too much for Sherman. He arrested Correspondent Knox on charges of spying, did his irascible best to have him hanged. A court-martial saved Knox from the gallows, but he was banned from Sherman...
...were building up troop concentrations on Sakhalin. Whether based on fact or not, the rumors made the U.S. high command sharply conscious that Japan's occupation garrison had been shipped to Korea, leaving the islands virtually defenseless on the ground. A Russian invasion of Japan from Sakhalin could outflank and trap U.N. forces in Korea...
Twelve miles north of Yoju, the French battalion, fighting together with a U.S. regiment, smashed a desperate Chinese attempt to outflank their position. After taking 3,600 casualties, the broken attackers retreated to the north...
This week, two tank-led enemy columns sliced through South Korean defenses in the northeast, threatened to outflank both Taegu and Pohang. But in the southwest, counterattacking G.I.s of the 25th Division had driven back to their old positions west of Haman and Masan. The big push was checked...