Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had advanced on Rostov in a narrow column, the left flank of which was insufficiently secured. Marshal Timoshenko drove down on the flank, then hit it head-on and sent it running. Before long the Russians claimed that the Germans' 14th and 16th Tank Divisions, 60th Motorized Division and two SS "Viking" Divisions had been pursued to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov; that they were running for Mariupol, 65 miles farther west...
Consequently, when Oscar Griswold went after his slippery adversary, there was little up his sleeve but determination. The Rolling Fourth plowed into Drum's center, inflicting heavy "casualties" and slowing up the Blue advance. The First Armored swung to the west and plowed into Drum's flank. The Second went around the other end. In the center and on the flanks a Donnybrook Fair began...
...Russian side there was some doubt about the imminence of the attack on the Caucasus. It seemed more reasonable to guess that the Germans would first drive straight across to the Volga, perhaps at Stalingrad, thereby isolating the Caucasus and protecting the German flank for its drive south. If such was the program, it was not likely that the Caucasus would suffer attack for some time...
...play, which was designed to fool the Bruin defense, starting out as a regular end run around the left flank...
Second Adams tally was chalked up in the third frame, when Dick Craig, who played a great game all afternoon from his flank post, snatched a Lowell pass from the air, and, with a clear field ahead, scampered down the sidelines to the promised land. The conversion was missed. Lone Lowell marker came in the dying minutes, as a Murphy to Sorlien pass, that had connected earlier for a score, but had been called back on account of a clipping penalty, saved the Bellboys from a white washing...