Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beleaguered Democrats, the only consolation in the spectacle of Clinton teetering on the balance beam was the sight of Bob Dole throwing out his back on the uneven bars. Having months ago pandered to his party's right flank by returning a contribution from a gay Republican group, Dole astonished both friends and foes Tuesday by announcing to Ohio reporters that he was going to accept the contribution after all. Dole's campaign manager Scott Reed had returned the contribution from the Log Cabin Republicans in August, a campaign insider explained, in the belief that once conservatives found out about...
...public place in America for smokers, a refuge where lighting up is countenanced as both a venerable tradition and an up-to-the-minute political statement about the evils of overregulation. The marble halls are decorated with sand-filled brass or ceramic urn ashtrays. Twin glass ashtrays on pedestals flank the entrance to the Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke wafts around the curving stone staircases...
...looked like a platoon leader venturing into no-man's-land. He did it with his chin up, but quickly--and very carefully. In step behind the President were some of the Pentagon's current and former top officials, and guarding the onetime draft avoider's extremely vulnerable right flank was the operation's point man: Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, an ex-Navy pilot who had languished for more than five years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. "Today," said Clinton, "I am announcing the normalization of diplomatic relationships with Vietnam...
...mountain town whose fall would force its 10,000 to 16,000 residents to seek shelter in other government-held towns. Reports Barnes: "Muslim army units -- about 3,000 men -- have escaped from Srebrenica and are trying to make their way inside Zepa. They've hit the Serb right flank badly. About 1,100 are already inside bolstering the defenses, and another 1,900 are making it through. They're really causing havoc in Serb-held territory: they've cut the Serbian road to Pale, and cut off the Serbian capital from the rest of the country." The Bosnian government...
Castro gave him a pair of gloves and ordered two young Marines to flank him with their bodies in order to keep him as warm as possible and shield him from the 45-degree wind whipping through the portals through which the helicopter's machine guns protruded. One of those Marines was Paul Bruce of Lebanon, Maine, a 20-year-old lance corporal who could see that the young pilot was in emotional tatters. "When he first got on the helo, he was sobbing and weeping," said Bruce. "It was more than just a tear or two. His chest...