Word: flank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shahak is no Colin Powell. The former chief of the Israeli army who formally declared his candidacy for Prime Minister Wednesday may look like a new broom to those tired of the traditional Likud-Labor divide, but that could be wishful thinking. ?Politically Shahak would be on the left flank of the Labor Party,? says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper echelons...
...light shone out between red velvet curtains. It and the musical prelude could have gone on for three hours, and I would not have missed the opera. Three violins and a phat viola fiddled while Nero was ostensibly still in the dressing room. They made up the feisty, devilish flank of the Early Music Society Orchestra, balanced by a quietly attentive harp and two awfully long lutes (allegedly a "chitarrone" and a "theorbo") on the right, with two harpsichords rammed together in the middle like poorly parked flagships...
Freshman Nick Lenicheck sparked the first goal with some nifty footwork on the left flank eight minutes into the game. He cut the ball back on his defender just inside of the sideline and then found junior Armando Petruccelli free at the top of the 18-yard box. From there, Harvard's leading scorer smashed home his seventh goal of the season...
...play began when senior forward Naomi Miller led Stauffer with a nice ball down the left flank. Stauffer maneuvered her way deep into the box past three Princeton defenders and touched the ball in Berman's direction...
...interest. The problem here is that everything is already going their way: Republicans now talk of winning 15 to 20 new seats in November, a prospect that has the faithful and the financiers wanting to barbecue Clinton for at least a few more weeks. The party's social-conservative flank, meanwhile, is opposed to mercy on ideological grounds, determined that the President must be spanked and spanked hard. But if the G.O.P. drags Clinton's carcass around the arena too many more times, the favorable trend in the polls will come to an abrupt halt. And so the Speaker sits...