Word: outflanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack even if it had to give up the passes. But the Israeli General Staff wants to keep the passes. Guiding newsmen on a tour of Giddi and Mitla last week, Colonel Simcha Maoz of the General Staff pointed out that any Egyptian armor allowed through the passes could outflank the mammoth Israeli base at Bir Gafgafa, 15 miles to the north...
...almost larger than life figure at 6 ft. 2 in., with a barrel chest and an Afro that leaps from his temples as if galvanized, he works at a pace that would exhaust most men. His 18-hour days and hundreds of phone calls a week have helped him outflank such established matchmakers as Madison Square Garden and Top Rank, Inc., a longtime promoter and closed-circuit telecaster of Ali fights. Of course he has not been hurt by the cooperation of Ali and his manager, Black Muslim Executive Herbert Muhammad, who are happy to break old traditions and deal...
...keeping up its verbal support for the leftist insurrections that have survived for decades in the region's remoter areas. Moscow, too, already has normal relations with most of Southeast Asia's countries and a small but growing trade with some; despite Peking's efforts to outflank it in Southeast Asia, the Soviet Union will no doubt continue to be a significant factor as the countries of the region make their adjustments to the new realities...
According to Kearns, L.B.J.'s obsession with Bobby Kennedy was even deeper than popularly believed. Johnson told her he feared that if he cut his losses in Viet Nam, Kennedy would outflank him on the right, arguing that Johnson had abandoned President Kennedy's commitment to South Viet Nam. Kearns suggests that Johnson may have had a special horror of Bobby as a man who met the same conflicting parental demands (be a thinker, be a doer) in a way he never could...
...after Cummins lets loose his speared salvos, the Big Green attack formation will be without a vanguard. Coach Edgar Stowell's field men should outflank Dartmouth in every other event, possibly excepting the discus, which Dartmouth's Don Starr has been throwing with increasing ability...