Word: outflanks
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...looked like a kid," he recalled. "I actually remember saying hello." Gunfire from the beach told him it was time to say goodbye. Huggins swam seaward, firing an occasional round from his waterlogged Smith & Wesson .38 to keep the snipers low. Then he saw two swimmers trying to outflank him from the north. "I squeezed off a couple at them, but I missed," he lamented later...
...counties. Last week Dirksen prevented a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee because the best he could have got was an eight-eight tie-which would have prevented a favorable report to the floor. After declaring "I am a determined man, I am playing for keeps," Dirksen sought to outflank the committee. He offered his amendment as a substitute for an unrelated measure (the designation of Aug. 31-Sept. 6 as National American Legion Baseball Week). He vowed: "If I get licked this time, I'll be here to hook it on any bill that comes before the Senate...
...miles across the Pacific, may not have been obsolete when John Foster Dulles propounded it. But its validity is suspect if some pieces are unwilling to topple dutifully at a push transmitted from China through their neighbors. The assertion that a Vietcong victory in South Vietnam would eventually "outflank" India needs further explanation, and American economic interests in the area ought to be more fully appraised. The consequences for American versus Chinese prestige of a Vietcong victory or even of a protracted stalemate must be weighed against the advantages of withdrawing American troops before the issue can become...
...local police were warned by a story in a Baltimore newspaper of the integration attempt, the demonstrators attempted to outflank the police by sending a token party to the front gate and deploying the main force to side and rear entrances...
Today, thanks to an enterprising Venezuelan firm called INSA (for Industrias Integradas), a clutch of U.S. companies have found a way to outflank the new restrictions-a way that is not only legal but encouraged by the Venezuelan government. In a sprawling, $3.6 million plant now under construction at Valencia in Venezuela's industrial "Golden Triangle," INSA plans to manufacture a dozen different products under license from nine U.S. firms ranging from Rhode Island's Fram Corp. (oil, gas and air filters) to RCA Whirlpool (refrigerators, washing machines and gas ranges). The U.S. firms will get royalties...