Word: flank
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There was ample reason for the show of good will. Geopolitically, Pakistan, a Muslim nation of 84 million, plus 2.8 million Afghan refugees, stands between the 100,000 Soviet troops that invaded Afghanistan and the eastern flank of the Persian Gulf region. Under U.N. auspices, it has been negotiating indirectly with the Soviet Union to achieve a complete Soviet troop withdrawal. Cautiously optimistic last week, Zia revealed that he had detected "a hint of flexibility" during his 45-minute meeting last month with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov...
...gathered aoround the posts and readied for a charge from the enemy. Upon seeing the guy on my left flank go down hard after a right to the chin, however, the goalposts passed quickly from my mind. I figured 9,999 men was enough and headed for cover in the hordes of alumni leaving the stands. The goalposts went down shortly thereafter, as did several more of the troops...
...painting. Welliver's accuracy of tone is phenomenal; there are hardly any "holes" and tonally inert areas in his work. With a loaded, flouncing brush he can put in the blue rim of ice around the cold black water of a pond, or the melting rime on the flank of a snow hummock, so that the substance is as palpable as the gesture...
...captain of a National Guard unit that was federalized. The other day we were standing on the back porch of my bungalow on the fringes of the campus. He gazed out toward a beautiful wooded terrain. "This was where we dug in," he said. "This was the left flank of our perimeter. We went all the way up to the law school." What impressed him the most, he said, was that the country boys under his command were against everything Meredith was trying to do, yet they were completely loyal to the American flag. He said, tenderly almost, "I guess...
Only too aware of the rumblings, Reagan endeavored to shore up his right flank. Speaking in Hartford to a convention of the Knights of Columbus, the Roman Catholic fraternal organization, he reaffirmed his support for constitutional amendments that would outlaw abortion and permit group prayer in public schools. Said Reagan to a standing ovation: "This national tragedy of abortion on demand must...