Word: outflanks
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Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River. At Canada Strongest the Bolivians struck. All the world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General...
...bloodthirsty Paraguayans were attacking about 60,000 dogged Bolivians. Should Paraguay break through, she will win not only the Fort, but the best motor road in all South America, leading straight into Bolivia's rich Villa Monies oilfields. Paraguayan cavalry columns moved northeast in an effort to outflank the Fort and all night long the sky was yellow with shellfire, while swaying ambulances going back passed heavy munitions trucks moving...
...Canoe,"† Steady promotion carried Joseph Joffre by 1911 to the post of Chief of the French General Staff "at only 59." What he called "Plan 17" was soon ready. He merely pulled out and unfolded it when Germany declared war. As the German armies advanced, Joffre tried to outflank their right (seaward) wing, they tried to outflank his left (seaward) wing and the two flanking operations (both perfectly sound) became "the race to the sea." Nobody won the race. It merely strung out the fighting lines. Terrible pounding began. The armies of France were forced back and back...
...Hindenburg Cabinet" was ready. A middle-of-the-Reichstag list, it looked like 183 Centre votes. On left and right the Communists, Socialists and National Socialists would be able if they combined (and these extremes of fire and ice have combined in German politics more than once) to outflank the cabinet with an encircling 218 votes and defeat it when Dr. Bruning faces the Reichstag...
...individual brilliance of Captain Bigelow, starring on the center ice for the Cambridge outfit, was the feature of the game. The Crimson leader gave an exhibition of clever stick handling and shifty footwork which completely baffled his opponents, showing ability to outflank either Eli wing with ease, to reverse his field, carrom off the boards, and hurdle interference at top speed, Bigelow merited the greatest meed of praise for the victory...