Word: outflanked
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...gliders, 34,000 U.S. and British airborne troops slammed at seven river and canal crossings between the Maas and the lower Rhine, starting Sunday, Sept. 17, 1944. In the biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had high hopes of hurdling the river barriers to outflank the Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons by two German Panzer divisions in one of the European...
...real danger of becoming a Soviet satellite. Already the new Iraqi government has withdrawn from the Baghdad Pact, driven Britain's R.A.F. from its Habbaniyah base near Baghdad. Unless the slide toward Communism is halted, the Soviet Union will penetrate the very heart of the Middle East, outflank staunchly pro-Western Turkey and increasingly shaky Iran. Encamped at the head of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S.R. could then render the rest of the Middle East militarily-and perhaps politically -indefensible by the West...
...Saigon, Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was the most seriously disturbed, for Red penetration of Cambodia would outflank his nation and give the Communist Chinese access to the Gulf of Siam. Diem rushed his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh to negotiate a settlement of the border question, and the Cambodian radio announced that terms had been discussed in a "relaxed atmosphere." Sihanouk promised, as soon as he returns from his current junket to Peking, to pay a visit to President Diem in Saigon...
...Southerners managed to outflank Joe Martin only once. Determined to find a conservative Republican who would introduce the trial-by-jury amendment for them, they lighted on Illinois' Freshman Russell Watson Keeney of Wheaton. It was Keeney who sponsored an amendment guaranteeing jury trials in criminal (but not civil) contempt proceedings. But when, at the climax of the ten-day debate, the amendment came to a vote, Joe Martin coolly predicted that he would lose no more than 40 Republicans. He actually lost 39 on the 199-167 tally...
Flanking Movement. But if Ike sticks to his present political line, he could conceivably outflank the Old Guardists and their friends without a pitched battle. He has powerful weapons on his side. He is far more sensitive to the mood of the nation than the Old Guardists are. He is devastatingly effective on television. Moreover, if he chooses to run in 1956, he will be in a strong position to dictate the G.O.P. platform and influence the selection of delegates...