Word: flank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian diplomats, whose nation has long been the fair-haired hemispheric boy of U.S. military planning. The U.S. had no intention of abandoning so old and strategically located a friend as Brazil. But planners in the Pentagon, thinking in terms of securing the U.S.'s southern flank, figured that Argentina is the most powerful nation in Latin America, and that Washington would do well to be on the good side of its army leaders...
General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
...Flank Protected. Next day the steering committee was back with a reworded resolution, condemning all forms of totalitarianism. Five minutes after it was presented, the resolution was unanimously approved...
...Secretary of State George Marshall could now feel that a real move had been made toward securing the U.S.'s southern flank. Now he could-and must-turn back to a Western Europe that faced Russia on much closer terms. The following afternoon he stood up abruptly. "I have to return to Washington," he said; ". . . the pressure of important matters there demands my return ... I leave with a feeling that we have met in an atmosphere of genuine cooperation." Then he was gone...
Ruminant. In Black Hawk County, Iowa, Farmer Sheldon Anton finally spotted the cause of an old lump on his cow's flank when he noticed twelve inches of pitchfork handle protruding from her ribs...