Word: flank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strapped to a perch atop the radiator of one of the jeeps was a man with a long wooden lance. As the jeep caught up, he rammed the lance against the bull's flank, knocking him hoof over hide. All eyes in the jeeps were trained on the black bull, intent on his slightest move...
...come to give counsel and approval to plans for converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling the Communist coastal flank...
...sure there are psychoanalyst's couches in the offices, and one room has a one-way observation screen built on the wall, but other psychological gear is conspicuously lacking. "Mein Kampf" and a life of Daunier flank the psychology texts in the bookcase; there are Japanese prints and Winslow Homer watercolors on the walls as well as pictures of Freud. The Clinic even has a kitchen, and serves its own 40-cent lunch for the staff...
...semi-circular stone benches, similar to those which supplemented the Dudley Gate, will flank the sundial and bear the inscriptions of the original benches. These read, "One of thy founders him New England know who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state his strength and years with care that after comers in them might have share...
Ever since war's end, Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...