Word: outflanks
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There are many opportunities for such attacks (see map). A major drive in the center might take Moscow and, sweeping on, outflank the entire southern front. A major drive in the south may strike directly at the Caucasus or swing north to outflank the central front. A drive in the far north might cut the lines of Allied aid from Murmansk and Archangel. A major drive through or around Turkey may cut off the Russian back door through Persia or swing south to attack Suez...
...Burma Road to China, with the possibility that it may swing in toward Bhamo in an attempt to sever all our communications with China. Another column is about to seize Mandalay. A third force has already taken Monywa and the Junction of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin Rivers, threatening to outflank...
...dark corner of the plan: an understanding between Lewis and the boss of the A.F. of L.'s carpenters, Big Bill Hutcheson, who is just as hardboiled, almost as ambitious, as John Llewellyn Lewis. The reported Lewis-Hutcheson deal was to retire A.F. of L. President William Green, outflank C.I.O. President Philip Murray, and seize control of U.S. labor. But Mr. Lewis had badly miscalculated the temper of Mr. Murray, his onetime devoted follower...
LONDON--Military experts believed today that the Germans plan to drive across Crimea to the Caucasus and turn north to come up on the oil port of Rostov from behind and outflank the whole Russian Don River defense line...
...tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yo went the credit. When the Japanese columns first stabbed at his troops General Hsueh had not tried to hold them. To make effective his numerical superiority he tried to outflank the drive, throw his men at the Japanese rear supply lines. As the Japanese drive forced it in, General Hsueh's line strained back like a bowstring. But the ends remained securely anchored deep behind the Japanese flanks...