Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marine had a wound of the lower chest in which a bullet was deflected through the liver, shattered the right kidney, went through the fourth lumbar vertebra (lower back) and left a large wound in the right flank. He was given plasma at the front line and on the way to the field hospital. But when he arrived at the hospital he was almost dead. A four-way infusion was begun. In two and a half hours, the marine got twelve units of plasma, eleven pints of blood, 1,000 cc of saline and glucose. That stabilized his blood pressure...
Marshal Zhukov's army, on the Ukrainian right flank, was the first to reach the foothills of the Carpathians. Behind it burning villages still dotted the plain of Bukovina, which it had crossed after cap turing Cernauti. And above it stood two famed Carpathian passes which Russian armies in one bitter winter of World War I fought to attain, but never succeeded in gaining...
...slopes of Mt. Castellone, which mark the Allied right flank, were held by French troops, who repulsed two German attacks...
...what geologists long ago named the Anadarko Basin. Though seismograph crews have swarmed over the basin for eleven years, dynamiting and painstakingly recording the sound waves that came back to their earphones, its area and oil content are still unknown. Until the Cottingham came in on the east flank of the basin, Anadarko produced little but "dry hole money"-the cash that oil companies advance to an enterprising wildcatter, to be repaid in oil or nothing...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov, stalled in Tarnopol's ruins, struck on the northern flank. In a cold spring rain, one column crossed the bloated Ikwa to take the 950-year-old fortress of Dubno, in old Poland. Another column slithered up a hill to take the fortress of Krzemieniec. From both, roads now led straight...